How To Install zip on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install zip on CentOS 8.
What is zip
The zip program is a compression and file packaging utility. Zip is analogous to a combination of the UNIX tar and compress commands and is compatible with PKZIP (a compression and file packaging utility for MS-DOS systems). Install the zip package if you need to compress files using the zip program.
We can use yum or dnf to install zip on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install zip.
Install zip 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 zip using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install zip
Install zip 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 zip using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install zip
How To Uninstall zip on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the zip package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove zip
zip Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/zip
/usr/bin/zipcloak
/usr/bin/zipnote
/usr/bin/zipsplit
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/30
/usr/lib/.build-id/30/39574f6af2f0d48ce58766c8555bb643411ad0
/usr/lib/.build-id/42
/usr/lib/.build-id/42/d18b9a140bca02bd5d9745e4c6f7f540c84b2c
/usr/lib/.build-id/58
/usr/lib/.build-id/58/aeda0334ff6d0e830270684ecced5ea24f8677
/usr/lib/.build-id/60
/usr/lib/.build-id/60/675c7ee635074c208a291020757ba77ac5cbbd
/usr/share/doc/zip
/usr/share/doc/zip/CHANGES
/usr/share/doc/zip/README
/usr/share/doc/zip/README.CR
/usr/share/doc/zip/TODO
/usr/share/doc/zip/WHATSNEW
/usr/share/doc/zip/WHERE
/usr/share/doc/zip/algorith.txt
/usr/share/licenses/zip
/usr/share/licenses/zip/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/zip.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/zipcloak.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/zipnote.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/zipsplit.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install zip on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.