How To Install gzip on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gzip on CentOS 8.
What is gzip
The gzip package contains the popular GNU gzip data compression program. Gzipped files have a .gz extension. Gzip should be installed on your system, because it is a very commonly used data compression program. The gzip package contains the popular GNU gzip data compression program. Gzipped files have a .gz extension. Gzip should be installed on your system, because it is a very commonly used data compression program.
We can use yum or dnf to install gzip on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install gzip.
Install gzip on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install gzip using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install gzip
Install gzip on CentOS 8 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 gzip using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install gzip
How To Uninstall gzip on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the gzip package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove gzip
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gzip on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.