How To Install nomarch on CentOS 8

nomarch is GPLed Arc de-archiver

Introduction

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

What is `nomarch`

nomarch lists/extracts/tests .arc' archives. (It also handles .ark’ files, they’re exactly the same.) This is a very outdated file format which should never be used for anything new, but unfortunately, you can still run into it every so often.

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

Install nomarch 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 nomarch using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install nomarch

Install nomarch 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 nomarch using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install nomarch

How To Uninstall nomarch on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove nomarch

nomarch Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/nomarch
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/9c
/usr/lib/.build-id/9c/ed623fda83bedbe77c6ce19f6bd3f4e130618c
/usr/share/doc/nomarch
/usr/share/doc/nomarch/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/nomarch/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/nomarch/README
/usr/share/man/man1/nomarch.1.gz

References

nomarch website

Summary

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