How To Install spax on Fedora 34

spax is Portable archive exchange

Introduction

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

What is spax

The pax utility shall read and write archives, write lists of the members of archive files and copy directory hierarchies as is defined in IEEE Std 1003.1.

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

Install spax 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 spax using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install spax

Install spax 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 spax using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install spax

How To Uninstall spax on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove spax

spax Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/pax
/usr/bin/spax
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/ff
/usr/lib/.build-id/ff/0d6c09c5a251622cf6af984a86544cd758b131
/usr/share/doc/star
/usr/share/doc/star/CDDL.Schily.txt
/usr/share/doc/star/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/pax.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/spax.1.gz

References

Summary

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