How To Install upx on AlmaLinux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install upx on AlmaLinux 8.
What is upx
UPX is a free, portable, extendable, high-performance executable packer for several different executable formats. It achieves an excellent compression ratio and offers very fast decompression. Your executables suffer no memory overhead or other drawbacks.
We can use yum or dnf to install upx on AlmaLinux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install upx.
Install upx on AlmaLinux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install upx using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install upx
Install upx on AlmaLinux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install upx using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install upx
How To Uninstall upx on AlmaLinux 8
To uninstall only the upx package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove upx
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install upx on AlmaLinux 8 using yum and dnf.