How To Install star on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install star in Fedora 36. star is An archiving tool with ACL support

Introduction

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

What is star

Star saves many files together into a single tape or disk archive, and can restore individual files from the archive. Star supports ACL.

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

Install star 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 star using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install star

Install star 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 star using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install star

How To Uninstall star on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove star

star Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/star
/usr/bin/ustar
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/72
/usr/lib/.build-id/72/f4dce5ded7f0bbd0122f09da91718a7a06ef7e
/usr/share/doc/star
/usr/share/doc/star/AN-1.2
/usr/share/doc/star/AN-1.3
/usr/share/doc/star/AN-1.3.1
/usr/share/doc/star/AN-1.4
/usr/share/doc/star/AN-1.5
/usr/share/doc/star/AN-1.5.1
/usr/share/doc/star/AN-1.5.2
/usr/share/doc/star/AN-1.5.3
/usr/share/doc/star/AN-1.6
/usr/share/doc/star/CDDL.Schily.txt
/usr/share/doc/star/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/star/README
/usr/share/man/man1/star.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/star_sym.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ustar.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/star.5.gz

References

Summary

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