How To Install patool on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install patool on Fedora 34.
What is patool
Patool is an archive file manager. Various archive formats can be created, extracted, tested, listed, searched, repacked and compared with patool. The advantage of patool is its simplicity in handling archive files without having to remember a myriad of programs and options. The archive format is determined by the file(1) program and as a fallback by the archive file extension. patool supports 7z (.7z, .cb7), ACE (.ace, .cba), ADF (.adf), ALZIP (.alz), APE (.ape), AR (.a), ARC (.arc), ARJ (.arj), BZIP2 (.bz2), CAB (.cab), COMPRESS (.Z), CPIO (.cpio), DEB (.deb), DMS (.dms), FLAC (.flac), GZIP (.gz), ISO (.iso), LRZIP (.lrz), LZH (.lha, .lzh), LZIP (.lz), LZMA (.lzma), LZOP (.lzo), RPM (.rpm), RAR (.rar, .cbr), RZIP (.rz), SHN (.shn), TAR (.tar, .cbt), XZ (.xz), ZIP (.zip, .jar, .cbz) and ZOO (.zoo) archive formats. It relies on helper applications to handle those archive formats (for example bzip2 for BZIP2 archives). The archive formats TAR, ZIP, BZIP2 and GZIP are supported natively and do not require helper applications to be installed.
We can use yum or dnf to install patool on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install patool.
Install patool 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 patool using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install patool
Install patool 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 patool using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install patool
How To Uninstall patool on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the patool package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove patool
patool Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/patool
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/patool
/usr/share/doc/patool
/usr/share/doc/patool/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/patool
/usr/share/licenses/patool/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/patool.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install patool on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.