How To Install p7zip on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install p7zip on CentOS 8.
What is p7zip
p7zip is a port of 7za.exe for Unix. 7-Zip is a file archiver with a very high compression ratio. The original version can be found at http
We can use yum or dnf to install p7zip on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install p7zip.
Install p7zip 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 p7zip using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install p7zip
Install p7zip 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 p7zip using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install p7zip
How To Uninstall p7zip on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the p7zip package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove p7zip
p7zip Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/7za
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/3b
/usr/lib/.build-id/3b/1a4bb22e74c4442163537cc63f0972feb14edf
/usr/lib/.build-id/3f
/usr/lib/.build-id/3f/f6048ad166da2606d0ec8650aade8bfed8b699
/usr/libexec/p7zip
/usr/libexec/p7zip/7zCon.sfx
/usr/libexec/p7zip/7za
/usr/share/doc/p7zip
/usr/share/doc/p7zip/7zC.txt
/usr/share/doc/p7zip/7zFormat.txt
/usr/share/doc/p7zip/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/p7zip/Methods.txt
/usr/share/doc/p7zip/README
/usr/share/doc/p7zip/lzma.txt
/usr/share/doc/p7zip/readme.txt
/usr/share/doc/p7zip/src-history.txt
/usr/share/licenses/p7zip
/usr/share/licenses/p7zip/License.txt
/usr/share/licenses/p7zip/copying.txt
/usr/share/man/man1/7za.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install p7zip on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.