How To Install arc on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install arc on Fedora 34.
What is arc
Arc file archiver and compressor. Long since superseded by zip/unzip but useful if you have old .arc files you need to unpack.
We can use yum or dnf to install arc on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install arc.
Install arc on Fedora 34 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install arc using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install arc
Install arc on Fedora 34 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install arc using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install arc
How To Uninstall arc on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the arc package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove arc
arc Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/arc
/usr/bin/marc
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/79
/usr/lib/.build-id/79/1862b1113bbaeabb52e81e55b7f498147a2783
/usr/lib/.build-id/87
/usr/lib/.build-id/87/8ad77041e231542a326545ae9a08c7b8f2fee9
/usr/share/doc/arc
/usr/share/doc/arc/Arc521.doc
/usr/share/doc/arc/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/arc/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/arc/PATCHLEVEL
/usr/share/doc/arc/Readme
/usr/share/man/man1/arc.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/marc.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install arc on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.