How To Install fuse-zip on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fuse-zip on CentOS 8.
What is fuse-zip
fuse-zip is a FUSE file system to navigate, extract, create and modify ZIP archives based in libzip implemented in C++. With fuse-zip you really can work with ZIP archives as real directories. Unlike KIO or Gnome VFS, it can be used in any application without modifications. Unlike other FUSE filesystems, only fuse-zip provides write support to ZIP archives. Also, fuse-zip is faster that all known implementations on large archives with many files.
We can use yum or dnf to install fuse-zip on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install fuse-zip.
Install fuse-zip 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 fuse-zip using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install fuse-zip
Install fuse-zip 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 fuse-zip using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install fuse-zip
How To Uninstall fuse-zip on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the fuse-zip package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove fuse-zip
fuse-zip Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/fuse-zip
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/50
/usr/lib/.build-id/50/ad59710c182d692f679ac5152499249c4d2b6e
/usr/share/doc/fuse-zip
/usr/share/doc/fuse-zip/README.md
/usr/share/doc/fuse-zip/changelog
/usr/share/licenses/fuse-zip
/usr/share/licenses/fuse-zip/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/fuse-zip.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fuse-zip on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.