How To Install arj on Fedora 34

arj is Archiver for .arj files

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.