How To Install zziplib-utils on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install zziplib-utils on CentOS 8.
What is zziplib-utils
The zziplib library is intentionally lightweight, it offers the ability to easily extract data from files archived in a single zip file. Applications can bundle files into a single zip archive and access them. The implementation is based only on the (free) subset of compression with the zlib algorithm which is actually used by the zip/unzip tools. This packages contains all the utilities that come with the zziplib library.
We can use yum or dnf to install zziplib-utils on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install zziplib-utils.
Install zziplib-utils 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 zziplib-utils using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install zziplib-utils
Install zziplib-utils 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 zziplib-utils using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install zziplib-utils
How To Uninstall zziplib-utils on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the zziplib-utils package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove zziplib-utils
zziplib-utils Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/unzip-mem
/usr/bin/unzzip
/usr/bin/unzzip-big
/usr/bin/unzzip-mem
/usr/bin/unzzip-mix
/usr/bin/zzcat
/usr/bin/zzdir
/usr/bin/zzxorcat
/usr/bin/zzxorcopy
/usr/bin/zzxordir
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/13
/usr/lib/.build-id/13/d7ba28171f2399aabac0e3d23041c0c7562c9e
/usr/lib/.build-id/18
/usr/lib/.build-id/18/bc2975f8b264212042ac8ab4590ca5b8f5cd92
/usr/lib/.build-id/4e
/usr/lib/.build-id/4e/f396686d23996eb39f18ebe5d6f6ce5f186e48
/usr/lib/.build-id/57
/usr/lib/.build-id/57/eb03ab0a153e5f0c06359079fcf517e181e116
/usr/lib/.build-id/61
/usr/lib/.build-id/61/ddbf17cbcd7c36a5b85ebba8352e561f503c37
/usr/lib/.build-id/67
/usr/lib/.build-id/67/1b695b71c110d831423af1b2020d599be60d99
/usr/lib/.build-id/90
/usr/lib/.build-id/90/4b0020292913c306474f065dbfe4c40b85bd65
/usr/lib/.build-id/bb
/usr/lib/.build-id/bb/2b2c3c50deea97529681e05051da2d0d3ed07a
/usr/lib/.build-id/ca
/usr/lib/.build-id/ca/c7326e1c8d88ee2cb67e1804a3cd9c0d4d3ecd
/usr/lib/.build-id/ed
/usr/lib/.build-id/ed/f2ee326bdf4a3b0171d5186008ec5c300c9162
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install zziplib-utils using yum and dnf.