How To Install sharutils on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install sharutils
on CentOS 7.
What is sharutils
The sharutils package contains the GNU shar utilities, a set of tools for encoding and decoding packages of files (in binary or text format) in a special plain text format called shell archives (shar). This format can be sent through e-mail (which can be problematic for regular binary files). The shar utility supports a wide range of capabilities (compressing, uuencoding, splitting long files for multi-part mailings, providing check-sums), which make it very flexible at creating shar files. After the files have been sent, the unshar tool scans mail messages looking for shar files. Unshar automatically strips off mail headers and introductory text and then unpacks the shar files.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install sharutils
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install sharutils.
Install sharutils on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install sharutils
using yum
by running the following command:
Install sharutils 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.
After updating yum database, We can install sharutils
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall sharutils on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the sharutils
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install sharutils
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.