How To Install icoutils on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install icoutils on CentOS 8.
What is icoutils
The icoutils are a set of programs for extracting and converting images in Microsoft Windows icon and cursor files. These files usually have the extension .ico or .cur, but they can also be embedded in executables or libraries.
We can use yum or dnf to install icoutils on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install icoutils.
Install icoutils 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 icoutils using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install icoutils
Install icoutils 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 icoutils using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install icoutils
How To Uninstall icoutils on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the icoutils package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove icoutils
icoutils Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/extresso
/usr/bin/genresscript
/usr/bin/icotool
/usr/bin/wrestool
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/9c
/usr/lib/.build-id/9c/3eeec5f6ad42b4f96a9e5701c8f390a00b552d
/usr/lib/.build-id/e8
/usr/lib/.build-id/e8/3a6e1afafbe34bbb189d014b159511c32aaa4a
/usr/share/doc/icoutils
/usr/share/doc/icoutils/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/icoutils/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/icoutils/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/icoutils/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/icoutils/README
/usr/share/doc/icoutils/TODO
/usr/share/locale/en@boldquot/LC_MESSAGES/icoutils.mo
/usr/share/locale/en@quot/LC_MESSAGES/icoutils.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/extresso.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/genresscript.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/icotool.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/wrestool.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install icoutils on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.