How To Install atool on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install atool
on CentOS 7.
What is atool
atool is a script for managing file archives of various types. It includes aunpack (to extract archives), apack (to create archives), als (to list files), acat (to extract files to the standard output), etc. atool relies on external programs to handle the archives. It determines the archive types using file extensions whenever possible, with a fallback on ‘file’. It includes support for tarballs, gzip, bzip, bzip2, lzop, lzma, pkzip, rar, ace, arj, rpm, cpio, arc, 7z, alzip.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install atool
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install atool.
Install atool on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install atool
using yum
by running the following command:
Install atool on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install atool
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall atool on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the atool
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install atool
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.