How To Install ark on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install ark on Rocky Linux 8. ark is Archive manager

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ark on Rocky Linux 8.

What is `ark`

Ark is a program for managing various archive formats. Archives can be viewed, extracted, created and modified from within Ark. The program can handle various formats such as tar, gzip, bzip2, zip, rar and lha (if appropriate command-line programs are installed).

We can use yum or dnf to install ark on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ark.

Install ark on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

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

sudo dnf -y install ark

Install ark on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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

sudo yum -y install ark

How To Uninstall ark on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove ark

ark Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/ark
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/9e
/usr/lib/.build-id/9e/c26cc77593e3c08a91e0049239cf39495eb685
/usr/share/applications/org.kde.ark.desktop
/usr/share/config.kcfg/ark.kcfg
/usr/share/doc/HTML/de/ark
/usr/share/doc/HTML/de/ark/ark-mainwindow.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/de/ark/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/de/ark/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/ark
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/ark/ark-comment.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/ark/ark-mainwindow.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/ark/create-archive.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/ark/create-protected-archive.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/ark/extract-dialog.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/ark/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/ark/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/es/ark
/usr/share/doc/HTML/es/ark/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/es/ark/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/et/ark
/usr/share/doc/HTML/et/ark/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/et/ark/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/fr/ark
/usr/share/doc/HTML/fr/ark/ark-mainwindow.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/fr/ark/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/fr/ark/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/gl/ark
/usr/share/doc/HTML/gl/ark/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/gl/ark/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/it/ark
/usr/share/doc/HTML/it/ark/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/it/ark/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/nl/ark
/usr/share/doc/HTML/nl/ark/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/nl/ark/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/pl/ark
/usr/share/doc/HTML/pl/ark/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/pl/ark/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/pt/ark
/usr/share/doc/HTML/pt/ark/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/pt/ark/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/pt_BR/ark
/usr/share/doc/HTML/pt_BR/ark/ark-mainwindow.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/pt_BR/ark/create-protected-archive.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/pt_BR/ark/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/pt_BR/ark/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/ru/ark
/usr/share/doc/HTML/ru/ark/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/ru/ark/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/sr/ark
/usr/share/doc/HTML/sr/ark/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/sr/ark/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/sv/ark
/usr/share/doc/HTML/sv/ark/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/sv/ark/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/uk/ark
/usr/share/doc/HTML/uk/ark/ark-comment.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/uk/ark/ark-mainwindow.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/uk/ark/create-archive.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/uk/ark/create-protected-archive.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/uk/ark/extract-dialog.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/uk/ark/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/uk/ark/index.docbook
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/ark.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/ark.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps/ark.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/ark.svgz
/usr/share/kxmlgui5/ark
/usr/share/kxmlgui5/ark/ark_viewer.rc
/usr/share/licenses/ark
/usr/share/licenses/ark/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/bs/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca@valencia/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/fa/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/ga/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/hi/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/ia/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/is/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/kk/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/km/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/lv/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/mr/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/nds/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/nn/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/ug/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/man/ca/man1/ark.1.gz
/usr/share/man/de/man1/ark.1.gz
/usr/share/man/es/man1/ark.1.gz
/usr/share/man/fr/man1/ark.1.gz
/usr/share/man/gl/man1/ark.1.gz
/usr/share/man/it/man1/ark.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ark.1.gz
/usr/share/man/nl/man1/ark.1.gz
/usr/share/man/pt/man1/ark.1.gz
/usr/share/man/pt_BR/man1/ark.1.gz
/usr/share/man/sr/man1/ark.1.gz
/usr/share/man/sv/man1/ark.1.gz
/usr/share/man/uk/man1/ark.1.gz
/usr/share/metainfo/org.kde.ark.appdata.xml
/usr/share/mime/packages/kerfuffle.xml
/usr/share/qlogging-categories5/ark.categories

References

ark website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ark on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.