How To Install pax on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install pax on Fedora 34.
What is pax
The ‘pax’ utility is the POSIX standard archive tool. It supports the two most common forms of standard Unix archive (backup) files - CPIO and TAR.
We can use yum or dnf to install pax on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install pax.
Install pax 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 pax using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install pax
Install pax 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 pax using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install pax
How To Uninstall pax on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the pax package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove pax
pax Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/opax
/usr/bin/pax
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/dc
/usr/lib/.build-id/dc/c1bf2a9f50b9518b4e200294b05ad5b49bb464
/usr/share/doc/pax
/usr/share/doc/pax/ABOUT-NLS
/usr/share/doc/pax/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/pax/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/pax/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/pax/README
/usr/share/doc/pax/THANKS
/usr/share/licenses/pax
/usr/share/licenses/pax/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/opax.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pax.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install pax on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.