How To Install attr on CentOS 8

attr is Utilities for managing filesystem extended attributes

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install attr on CentOS 8.

What is attr

A set of tools for manipulating extended attributes on filesystem objects, in particular getfattr(1) and setfattr(1). An attr(1) command is also provided which is largely compatible with the SGI IRIX tool of the same name.

We can use yum or dnf to install attr on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install attr.

Install attr on CentOS 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install attr using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install attr

Install attr on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install attr using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install attr

How To Uninstall attr on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the attr package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove attr

attr Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/attr
/usr/bin/getfattr
/usr/bin/setfattr
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/00
/usr/lib/.build-id/00/ba7daf5da310e3f47e5a16bc0f6cb0e23d525a
/usr/lib/.build-id/e0
/usr/lib/.build-id/e0/4809b38b172433a2812e8935eeb12c8f0adb49
/usr/lib/.build-id/ee
/usr/lib/.build-id/ee/5a3d7a330291b142ca7a99c749fbfbbd9d5596
/usr/share/doc/attr
/usr/share/doc/attr/CHANGES
/usr/share/licenses/attr
/usr/share/licenses/attr/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/attr/COPYING.LGPL
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/attr.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/attr.mo
/usr/share/locale/en@boldquot/LC_MESSAGES/attr.mo
/usr/share/locale/en@quot/LC_MESSAGES/attr.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/attr.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/attr.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/attr.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/attr.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/attr.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/attr.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/attr.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/getfattr.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/setfattr.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install attr on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.