How To Install pax on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install pax in Fedora 36. pax is POSIX File System Archiver

Introduction

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

What is pax

The ‘pax’ utility is the POSIX standard archive tool. It supports the two most common forms of standard Unix archive (backup) files - CPIO and TAR.

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

Install pax 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 pax using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install pax

Install pax 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 pax using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install pax

How To Uninstall pax on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove pax

pax Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/opax
/usr/bin/pax
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/09
/usr/lib/.build-id/09/a9778b26ae54075fa8b9ff5189e572a32af417
/usr/share/doc/pax
/usr/share/doc/pax/ABOUT-NLS
/usr/share/doc/pax/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/pax/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/pax/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/pax/README
/usr/share/doc/pax/THANKS
/usr/share/licenses/pax
/usr/share/licenses/pax/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/opax.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pax.1.gz

References

Summary

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