How To Install scpio on Fedora 34

scpio is Copy file archives in and out (LEGACY)

Introduction

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

What is scpio

The scpio utility, depending on the options used file, extracts files from an archive file, lists files from an archive file or copies files from one directory tree to another.

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

Install scpio 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 scpio using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install scpio

Install scpio 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 scpio using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install scpio

How To Uninstall scpio on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove scpio

scpio Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/scpio
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/61
/usr/lib/.build-id/61/67fd09ce01c0431d18f7da8cbeb67812136d24
/usr/share/doc/star
/usr/share/doc/star/CDDL.Schily.txt
/usr/share/doc/star/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/scpio.1.gz

References

Summary

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