How To Install quazip-qt5 on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install quazip-qt5 on CentOS 7. quazip-qt5 is Qt5 wrapper for the minizip library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install quazip-qt5 on CentOS 7.

What is quazip-qt5

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-qt5 on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install quazip-qt5.

Install quazip-qt5 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-qt5 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install quazip-qt5

Install quazip-qt5 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-qt5 using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install quazip-qt5

How To Uninstall quazip-qt5 on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the quazip-qt5 package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove quazip-qt5

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install quazip-qt5 on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.