How To Install zziplib-utils on CentOS 7

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install zziplib-utils on CentOS 7.

What is zziplib-utils

The zziplib library is intentionally lightweight, it offers the ability to easily extract data from files archived in a single zip file. Applications can bundle files into a single zip archive and access them. The implementation is based only on the (free) subset of compression with the zlib algorithm which is actually used by the zip/unzip tools. This packages contains all the utilities that come with the zziplib library.

We can use yum or dnf to install zziplib-utils on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install zziplib-utils.

Install zziplib-utils on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install zziplib-utils using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install zziplib-utils

Install zziplib-utils 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 zziplib-utils using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install zziplib-utils

How To Uninstall zziplib-utils on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the zziplib-utils package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove zziplib-utils

References

• zziplib-utils website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install zziplib-utils on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.