How To Install quazip on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install quazip on CentOS 7. quazip is Qt/C++ wrapper for the minizip library

Introduction

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

What is quazip

QuaZIP is a simple C++ wrapper over Gilles Vollant’s ZIP/UNZIP package that can be used to access ZIP archives. It uses Trolltech’s Qt toolkit. QuaZIP allows you to access files inside ZIP archives using QIODevice API, and - yes! - that means that you can also use QTextStream, QDataStream or whatever you would like to use on your zipped files. QuaZIP provides complete abstraction of the ZIP/UNZIP API, for both reading from and writing to ZIP archives.

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

Install quazip on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

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

sudo yum -y install quazip

Install quazip 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 quazip using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install quazip

How To Uninstall quazip on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove quazip

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Summary

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