How To Install unshield on Fedora 34

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Introduction

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

What is `unshield`

This tool allows the extraction of InstallShield format cabinet files (which are different from Microsoft cabinet files). It was initially developed as a part of the SynCE project to aid with installing applications for Pocket PC devices, which were often contained in InstallShield installers, but these days that is rather less likely to be the primary use case. unshield 1.4.3 3.fc34 x86_64 39 k unshield-1.4.3-3.fc34.src.rpm fedora Install InstallShield applications on a Pocket PC https MIT This tool allows the extraction of InstallShield format cabinet files (which are different from Microsoft cabinet files). It was initially developed as a part of the SynCE project to aid with installing applications for Pocket PC devices, which were often contained in InstallShield installers, but these days that is rather less likely to be the primary use case.

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

Install unshield 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 unshield using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install unshield

Install unshield 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 unshield using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install unshield

How To Uninstall unshield on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove unshield

unshield Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/unshield
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/75
/usr/lib/.build-id/75/fbbf6f9b2507126965541c45c2b1753851332a
/usr/lib/.build-id/82
/usr/lib/.build-id/82/45caf034a3087e46ed3c6299759d6e3b0cb497
/usr/lib/libunshield.so.0
/usr/lib/libunshield.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/doc/unshield
/usr/share/doc/unshield/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/unshield
/usr/share/licenses/unshield/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/unshield.1.gz
/usr/bin/unshield
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/ec
/usr/lib/.build-id/ec/98195c1d08ed9cd1012f382d183d57f8cd7981
/usr/lib/.build-id/ef
/usr/lib/.build-id/ef/b4ca79e70736b09c9aa6c26d8e7ee8e7b93da8
/usr/lib64/libunshield.so.0
/usr/lib64/libunshield.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/doc/unshield
/usr/share/doc/unshield/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/unshield
/usr/share/licenses/unshield/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/unshield.1.gz

References

[unshield website](https://github.com/twogood/unshield https://github.com/twogood/unshield)

Summary

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