How To Install p7zip on CentOS 8

p7zip is Very high compression ratio file archiver

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.