How To Install atool on Fedora 34

atool is A perl script for managing file archives of various types

Introduction

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

What is `atool`

atool is a script for managing file archives of various types. It includes aunpack (to extract archives), apack (to create archives), als (to list files), acat (to extract files to the standard output), etc. atool relies on external programs to handle the archives. It determines the archive types using file extensions whenever possible, with a fallback on ‘file’. It includes support for tarballs, gzip, bzip, bzip2, lzop, lzma, pkzip, rar, ace, arj, rpm, cpio, arc, 7z, alzip.

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

Install atool 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 atool using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install atool

Install atool 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 atool using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install atool

How To Uninstall atool on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove atool

atool Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/acat
/usr/bin/adiff
/usr/bin/als
/usr/bin/apack
/usr/bin/arepack
/usr/bin/atool
/usr/bin/aunpack
/usr/share/doc/atool
/usr/share/doc/atool/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/atool/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/atool/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/atool/README
/usr/share/doc/atool/TODO
/usr/share/man/man1/acat.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/adiff.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/als.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/apack.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/arepack.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/atool.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/aunpack.1.gz

References

atool website

Summary

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