How To Install ark on Fedora 34

ark is Archive manager

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ark on Fedora 34.

What is ark

Ark is a program for managing various archive formats. Archives can be viewed, extracted, created and modified from within Ark. The program can handle various formats such as tar, gzip, bzip2, zip, rar and lha (if appropriate command-line programs are installed).

We can use yum or dnf to install ark on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ark.

Install ark 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 ark using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install ark

Install ark 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 ark using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install ark

How To Uninstall ark on Fedora 34

To uninstall only the ark package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove ark

ark Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/ark
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/58
/usr/lib/.build-id/58/769b78253878c829a28751065d52dd00e7ac21
/usr/share/applications/org.kde.ark.desktop
/usr/share/config.kcfg/ark.kcfg
/usr/share/doc/HTML/de/ark
/usr/share/doc/HTML/de/ark/ark-mainwindow.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/de/ark/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/de/ark/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/ark
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/ark/ark-comment.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/ark/ark-mainwindow.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/ark/create-archive.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/ark/create-protected-archive.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/ark/extract-dialog.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/ark/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/ark/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/es/ark
/usr/share/doc/HTML/es/ark/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/es/ark/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/et/ark
/usr/share/doc/HTML/et/ark/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/et/ark/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/fr/ark
/usr/share/doc/HTML/fr/ark/ark-mainwindow.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/fr/ark/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/fr/ark/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/gl/ark
/usr/share/doc/HTML/gl/ark/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/gl/ark/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/it/ark
/usr/share/doc/HTML/it/ark/ark-comment.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/it/ark/ark-mainwindow.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/it/ark/create-archive.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/it/ark/create-protected-archive.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/it/ark/extract-dialog.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/it/ark/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/it/ark/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/nl/ark
/usr/share/doc/HTML/nl/ark/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/nl/ark/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/pl/ark
/usr/share/doc/HTML/pl/ark/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/pl/ark/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/pt/ark
/usr/share/doc/HTML/pt/ark/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/pt/ark/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/pt_BR/ark
/usr/share/doc/HTML/pt_BR/ark/ark-mainwindow.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/pt_BR/ark/create-protected-archive.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/pt_BR/ark/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/pt_BR/ark/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/ru/ark
/usr/share/doc/HTML/ru/ark/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/ru/ark/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/sr/ark
/usr/share/doc/HTML/sr/ark/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/sr/ark/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/sv/ark
/usr/share/doc/HTML/sv/ark/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/sv/ark/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/uk/ark
/usr/share/doc/HTML/uk/ark/ark-comment.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/uk/ark/ark-mainwindow.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/uk/ark/create-archive.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/uk/ark/create-protected-archive.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/uk/ark/extract-dialog.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/uk/ark/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/uk/ark/index.docbook
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/ark.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/ark.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps/ark.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/ark.svgz
/usr/share/kxmlgui5/ark
/usr/share/kxmlgui5/ark/ark_viewer.rc
/usr/share/licenses/ark
/usr/share/licenses/ark/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/bs/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca@valencia/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/fa/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/ga/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/hi/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/ia/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/is/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/kk/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/km/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/lv/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/mr/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/nds/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/nn/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/ug/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/man/ca/man1/ark.1.gz
/usr/share/man/de/man1/ark.1.gz
/usr/share/man/es/man1/ark.1.gz
/usr/share/man/fr/man1/ark.1.gz
/usr/share/man/gl/man1/ark.1.gz
/usr/share/man/it/man1/ark.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ark.1.gz
/usr/share/man/nl/man1/ark.1.gz
/usr/share/man/pt/man1/ark.1.gz
/usr/share/man/pt_BR/man1/ark.1.gz
/usr/share/man/sr/man1/ark.1.gz
/usr/share/man/sv/man1/ark.1.gz
/usr/share/man/uk/man1/ark.1.gz
/usr/share/metainfo/org.kde.ark.appdata.xml
/usr/share/qlogging-categories5/ark.categories

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ark on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.