How To Install zip on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install zip
on CentOS 7.
What is zip
The zip program is a compression and file packaging utility. Zip is analogous to a combination of the UNIX tar and compress commands and is compatible with PKZIP (a compression and file packaging utility for MS-DOS systems). Install the zip package if you need to compress files using the zip program.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install zip
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install zip.
Install zip on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install zip
using yum
by running the following command:
Install zip 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 zip
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall zip on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the zip
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install zip
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.