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