How To Install tar on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install tar in Fedora 36. tar is GNU file archiving program

Introduction

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

What is tar

The GNU tar program saves many files together in one archive and can restore individual files (or all of the files) from that archive. Tar can also be used to add supplemental files to an archive and to update or list files in the archive. Tar includes multivolume support, automatic archive compression/decompression, the ability to perform remote archives, and the ability to perform incremental and full backups. If you want to use tar for remote backups, you also need to install the rmt package on the remote box.

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

Install tar 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 tar using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install tar

Install tar 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 tar using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install tar

How To Uninstall tar on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove tar

tar Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/gtar
/usr/bin/tar
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/30
/usr/lib/.build-id/30/8d144b1394f05a9c828706ed143808c2f56c5b
/usr/share/doc/tar
/usr/share/doc/tar/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/tar/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/tar/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/tar/README
/usr/share/doc/tar/THANKS
/usr/share/info/tar.info-1.gz
/usr/share/info/tar.info-2.gz
/usr/share/info/tar.info.gz
/usr/share/licenses/tar
/usr/share/licenses/tar/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/tar.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/tar.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/tar.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/tar.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/tar.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/tar.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/tar.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/tar.mo
/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/tar.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/tar.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/tar.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/tar.mo
/usr/share/locale/ga/LC_MESSAGES/tar.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/tar.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/tar.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/tar.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/tar.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/tar.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/tar.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/tar.mo
/usr/share/locale/ky/LC_MESSAGES/tar.mo
/usr/share/locale/ms/LC_MESSAGES/tar.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/tar.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/tar.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/tar.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/tar.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/tar.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/tar.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/tar.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/tar.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/tar.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/tar.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/tar.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/tar.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/tar.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/tar.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/tar.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/tar.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/gtar.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/tar.1.gz

References

Summary

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