How To Install freeze on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install freeze on CentOS 7. freeze is freeze/melt/fcat compression utilities

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install freeze on CentOS 7.

What is freeze

Freeze is an old file compressor and decompressor that is not in common use anymore, but can be useful if the need ever arises to dearchive files compressed with it.

We can use yum or dnf to install freeze on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install freeze.

Install freeze on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

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

sudo yum -y install freeze

Install freeze 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.

sudo dnf makecache

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

sudo dnf -y install freeze

How To Uninstall freeze on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove freeze

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install freeze on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.