How To Install arj on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install arj on Fedora 34.
What is arj
This package is an open source version of the arj archiver. It has been created with the intent to preserve maximum compatibility and retain the feature set of original ARJ archiver as provided by ARJ Software, Inc.
We can use yum or dnf to install arj on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install arj.
Install arj 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 arj using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install arj
Install arj 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 arj using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install arj
How To Uninstall arj on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the arj package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove arj
arj Package Contents on Fedora 34
/etc/rearj.cfg
/usr/bin/arj
/usr/bin/arjdisp
/usr/bin/rearj
/usr/bin/unarj
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/20
/usr/lib/.build-id/20/35229a83a998b71db3b28df5722c10b486dea4
/usr/lib/.build-id/34
/usr/lib/.build-id/34/842bc34335746fec780f0d203c6e680f27a4cd
/usr/lib/.build-id/c6
/usr/lib/.build-id/c6/40585c70e2f231e3ef38025e486b634294061e
/usr/lib/.build-id/cb
/usr/lib/.build-id/cb/1536ac6a5211bba09882d474a5c5da5add3e46
/usr/lib64/arj
/usr/lib64/arj/arjcrypt.so
/usr/share/doc/arj
/usr/share/doc/arj/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/arj/rev_hist.txt
/usr/share/licenses/arj
/usr/share/licenses/arj/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/arj.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/arjdisp.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/rearj.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/unarj.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install arj on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.