Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install cabextract on CentOS 8.
What is cabextract
cabextract is a program which can extract files from cabinet (.cab) archives.
We can use yum or dnf to install cabextract on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install cabextract.
Install cabextract on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install cabextract using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install cabextract
Install cabextract on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install cabextract using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install cabextract
How To Uninstall cabextract on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the cabextract package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove cabextract
cabextract Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/cabextract
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/9e
/usr/lib/.build-id/9e/0dc7883abaf83245d8b5654c26a085e7143f76
/usr/share/doc/cabextract
/usr/share/doc/cabextract/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/cabextract/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/cabextract/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/cabextract/README
/usr/share/doc/cabextract/TODO
/usr/share/licenses/cabextract
/usr/share/licenses/cabextract/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/cabextract.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install cabextract on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.
