How To Install icoutils on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install icoutils on Rocky Linux 8. icoutils is Utility for extracting and converting Microsoft icon and cursor files

Introduction

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

What is icoutils

The icoutils are a set of programs for extracting and converting images in Microsoft Windows icon and cursor files. These files usually have the extension .ico or .cur, but they can also be embedded in executables or libraries.

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

Install icoutils 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 icoutils using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install icoutils

Install icoutils 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 icoutils using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install icoutils

How To Uninstall icoutils on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove icoutils

icoutils Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/extresso
/usr/bin/genresscript
/usr/bin/icotool
/usr/bin/wrestool
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/39
/usr/lib/.build-id/39/06a8e090f91b8c5c46bbfc797fd25794a0e98d
/usr/lib/.build-id/d9
/usr/lib/.build-id/d9/285e74f93073246ed97e71597d66d93a41a778
/usr/share/doc/icoutils
/usr/share/doc/icoutils/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/icoutils/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/icoutils/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/icoutils/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/icoutils/README
/usr/share/doc/icoutils/TODO
/usr/share/locale/en@boldquot/LC_MESSAGES/icoutils.mo
/usr/share/locale/en@quot/LC_MESSAGES/icoutils.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/extresso.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/genresscript.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/icotool.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/wrestool.1.gz

References

Summary

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