How To Install arc on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install arc in Fedora 36. arc is Arc archiver

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install arc on Fedora 36.

What is arc

Arc file archiver and compressor. Long since superseded by zip/unzip but useful if you have old .arc files you need to unpack.

We can use yum or dnf to install arc on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install arc.

Install arc on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install arc using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install arc

Install arc on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install arc using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install arc

How To Uninstall arc on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove arc

arc Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/arc
/usr/bin/marc
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/7c
/usr/lib/.build-id/7c/5deb356f50cc2964f8b80c336c90b339f59f63
/usr/lib/.build-id/d1
/usr/lib/.build-id/d1/959f7b9496fd0731b4b361d38ac05d5384f992
/usr/share/doc/arc
/usr/share/doc/arc/Arc521.doc
/usr/share/doc/arc/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/arc/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/arc/PATCHLEVEL
/usr/share/doc/arc/Readme
/usr/share/man/man1/arc.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/marc.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install arc on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).