How To Install fuse-zip on CentOS 8

fuse-zip is Filesystem to navigate, extract, create and modify ZIP archives

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.