How To Install unzoo on Fedora 34

unzoo is ZOO archive extractor

Introduction

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

What is unzoo

‘unzoo’ is a zoo archive extractor. A zoo archive is a file that contains several files, called its members, usually in compressed form to save space. ‘unzoo’ can list all or selected members or extract all or selected members, i.e., uncompress them and write them to files. It cannot add new members or delete members. For this you need the zoo archiver, called ‘zoo’, written by Rahul Dhesi.

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

Install unzoo 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 unzoo using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install unzoo

Install unzoo 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 unzoo using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install unzoo

How To Uninstall unzoo on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove unzoo

unzoo Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/unzoo
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/a1
/usr/lib/.build-id/a1/187ec8cb00adce17237f8fdfb94c114248df84
/usr/share/doc/unzoo
/usr/share/doc/unzoo/unzoo.txt

References

Summary

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