How To Install freeze on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install freeze in Fedora 36. freeze is freeze/melt/fcat compression utilities

Introduction

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

What is `freeze`

Freeze is an old file compressor and decompressor that is not in common use anymore, but can be useful if the need ever arises to dearchive files compressed with it.

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

Install freeze 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 freeze using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install freeze

Install freeze 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 freeze using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install freeze

How To Uninstall freeze on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove freeze

freeze Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/fcat
/usr/bin/freeze
/usr/bin/melt
/usr/bin/statist
/usr/bin/unfreeze
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/82
/usr/lib/.build-id/82/fcc14ffd730b2043e9c1319a5c0376c1c97704
/usr/lib/.build-id/da
/usr/lib/.build-id/da/8344fbe558497f9b243fd7d69bce4fcfea1522
/usr/share/doc/freeze
/usr/share/doc/freeze/Freeze_license_email.txt
/usr/share/doc/freeze/MANIFEST
/usr/share/doc/freeze/README
/usr/share/man/man1/fcat.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/freeze.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/melt.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/statist.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/unfreeze.1.gz

References

freeze website

Summary

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