How To Install unzip on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install unzip
on CentOS 7.
What is unzip
The unzip utility is used to list, test, or extract files from a zip archive. Zip archives are commonly found on MS-DOS systems. The zip utility, included in the zip package, creates zip archives. Zip and unzip are both compatible with archives created by PKWARE(R)’s PKZIP for MS-DOS, but the programs’ options and default behaviors do differ in some respects. Install the unzip package if you need to list, test or extract files from a zip archive.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install unzip
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install unzip.
Install unzip on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install unzip
using yum
by running the following command:
Install unzip 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 unzip
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall unzip on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the unzip
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install unzip
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.