How To Install upx on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install upx
on CentOS 7.
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 CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install upx.
Install upx on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install upx
using yum
by running the following command:
Install upx 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 upx
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall upx on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the upx
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install upx
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.