How To Install xar on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install xar on CentOS 8.
What is xar
The XAR project aims to provide an easily extensible archive format. Important design decisions include an easily extensible XML table of contents for random access to archived files, storing the toc at the beginning of the archive to allow for efficient handling of streamed archives, the ability to handle files of arbitrarily large sizes, the ability to choose independent encodings for individual files in the archive, the ability to store checksums for individual files in both compressed and uncompressed form, and the ability to query the table of content’s rich meta-data.
We can use yum or dnf to install xar on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install xar.
Install xar 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 xar using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install xar
Install xar 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 xar using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install xar
How To Uninstall xar on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the xar package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove xar
xar Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/xar
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/2e
/usr/lib/.build-id/2e/f93c0096fa6d24bdecf9d33d62add342b1ca78
/usr/lib/.build-id/55
/usr/lib/.build-id/55/5f8807735f9244cc287477e084805618fe8cc6
/usr/lib64/libxar.so.1
/usr/share/doc/xar
/usr/share/doc/xar/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/xar/README
/usr/share/doc/xar/TODO
/usr/share/licenses/xar
/usr/share/licenses/xar/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/xar.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install xar on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.