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.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install sharutils using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install sharutils
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.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install sharutils using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install sharutils
How To Uninstall sharutils on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the sharutils package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove sharutils
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install sharutils on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
