How To Install parzip on Fedora 34

parzip is High performance parallel pkzip implementation

Introduction

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

What is parzip

A command line utility to pack and unpack zip archives using multiple threads.

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

Install parzip 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 parzip using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install parzip

Install parzip 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 parzip using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install parzip

How To Uninstall parzip on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove parzip

parzip Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/parunzip
/usr/bin/parzip
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/0d
/usr/lib/.build-id/0d/8669f60c9a22d7e84e971d13af3bd94873a87e
/usr/lib/.build-id/80
/usr/lib/.build-id/80/262fddb2576b331b9b4335d416123b6b010131
/usr/share/doc/parzip
/usr/share/doc/parzip/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/parzip
/usr/share/licenses/parzip/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/parunzip.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/parzip.1.gz

References

Summary

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