How To Install libzip-tools on CentOS 8

libzip-tools is Command line tools from libzip

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libzip-tools on CentOS 8.

What is libzip-tools

The libzip-tools package provides command line tools split off libzip - zipcmp - zipmerge - ziptool

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

Install libzip-tools 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 libzip-tools using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libzip-tools

Install libzip-tools 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 libzip-tools using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libzip-tools

How To Uninstall libzip-tools on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the libzip-tools package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove libzip-tools

libzip-tools Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/zipcmp
/usr/bin/zipmerge
/usr/bin/ziptool
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/15
/usr/lib/.build-id/15/bb520b839ea3d32b03d5e08a150817c94ebe8a
/usr/lib/.build-id/ad
/usr/lib/.build-id/ad/3565033ead81ba7a1d278e52a8b58b13e7280d
/usr/lib/.build-id/d8
/usr/lib/.build-id/d8/0a7f2d335ffa557b8474390e39e97450fc3ee7
/usr/share/man/man1/zipcmp.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/zipmerge.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ziptool.1.gz

References

Summary

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