How To Install perl-Archive-Extract on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-Archive-Extract on CentOS 7. perl-Archive-Extract is Generic archive extracting mechanism

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-Archive-Extract on CentOS 7.

What is perl-Archive-Extract

Archive allows you to extract any archive file of the type .tar, .tar.gz, .gz, .Z, tar.bz2, .tbz, .bz2, .zip, .xz,, .txz, .tar.xz, or .lzma without having to worry how it does so, or use different interfaces for each type by using either perl modules, or command-line tools on your system.

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

Install perl-Archive-Extract on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install perl-Archive-Extract using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install perl-Archive-Extract

Install perl-Archive-Extract 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 perl-Archive-Extract using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install perl-Archive-Extract

How To Uninstall perl-Archive-Extract on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the perl-Archive-Extract package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove perl-Archive-Extract

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-Archive-Extract on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.