How To Install unzoo on CentOS 8

unzoo is ZOO archive extractor

Introduction

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

What is unzoo

‘unzoo’ is a zoo archive extractor. A zoo archive is a file that contains several files, called its members, usually in compressed form to save space. ‘unzoo’ can list all or selected members or extract all or selected members, i.e., uncompress them and write them to files. It cannot add new members or delete members. For this you need the zoo archiver, called ‘zoo’, written by Rahul Dhesi.

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

Install unzoo 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 unzoo using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install unzoo

Install unzoo 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 unzoo using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install unzoo

How To Uninstall unzoo on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove unzoo

unzoo Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/unzoo
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/a2
/usr/lib/.build-id/a2/85d8c3ed874ac72b925ba214513560ad9a6cd7
/usr/share/doc/unzoo
/usr/share/doc/unzoo/unzoo.txt

References

Summary

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