How To Install innoextract on CentOS 8

innoextract is Tool to extract installers created by Inno Setup

Introduction

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

What is innoextract

Inno Setup is a tool to create installers for Microsoft Windows applications. innoextract allows to extract such installers under non-windows systems without running the actual installer using wine.

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

Install innoextract 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 innoextract using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install innoextract

Install innoextract 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 innoextract using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install innoextract

How To Uninstall innoextract on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove innoextract

innoextract Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/innoextract
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/9d
/usr/lib/.build-id/9d/733f6239891c58aaaf364737c787c8f1aefe69
/usr/share/doc/innoextract
/usr/share/doc/innoextract/CHANGELOG
/usr/share/doc/innoextract/README.md
/usr/share/doc/innoextract/VERSION
/usr/share/licenses/innoextract
/usr/share/licenses/innoextract/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/innoextract.1.gz

References

Summary

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