How To Install libarchive on Fedora 34

libarchive is A library for handling streaming archive formats A library for handling streaming archive formats

Introduction

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

What is libarchive

Libarchive is a programming library that can create and read several different streaming archive formats, including most popular tar variants, several cpio formats, and both BSD and GNU ar variants. It can also write shar archives and read ISO9660 CDROM images and ZIP archives. libarchive 3.5.1 2.fc34 i686 439 k libarchive-3.5.1-2.fc34.src.rpm fedora A library for handling streaming archive formats https BSD Libarchive is a programming library that can create and read several different streaming archive formats, including most popular tar variants, several cpio formats, and both BSD and GNU ar variants. It can also write shar archives and read ISO9660 CDROM images and ZIP archives.

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

Install libarchive 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 libarchive using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libarchive

Install libarchive 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 libarchive using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libarchive

How To Uninstall libarchive on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove libarchive

libarchive Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/73
/usr/lib/.build-id/73/aae73871592989ea3d35399d6d0df5c69a10ec
/usr/lib/libarchive.so.13
/usr/lib/libarchive.so.13.5.1
/usr/share/doc/libarchive
/usr/share/doc/libarchive/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/libarchive/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/libarchive
/usr/share/licenses/libarchive/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man5/cpio.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/mtree.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/tar.5.gz
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/78
/usr/lib/.build-id/78/84bc0c2db3553adf4915f1b586ee7c60441286
/usr/lib64/libarchive.so.13
/usr/lib64/libarchive.so.13.5.1
/usr/share/doc/libarchive
/usr/share/doc/libarchive/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/libarchive/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/libarchive
/usr/share/licenses/libarchive/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man5/cpio.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/mtree.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/tar.5.gz

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Summary

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