ark is Archive manager
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ark on CentOS 8.
What is ark
Ark is a program for managing various archive formats. Archives can be viewed, extracted, created and modified from within Ark. The program can handle various formats such as tar, gzip, bzip2, zip, rar and lha (if appropriate command-line programs are installed).
We can use yum or dnf to install ark on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ark.
Install ark 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 ark using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install ark
Install ark 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 ark using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install ark
How To Uninstall ark on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the ark package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove ark
ark Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/ark
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/9e
/usr/lib/.build-id/9e/c26cc77593e3c08a91e0049239cf39495eb685
/usr/share/applications/org.kde.ark.desktop
/usr/share/config.kcfg/ark.kcfg
/usr/share/doc/HTML/de/ark
/usr/share/doc/HTML/de/ark/ark-mainwindow.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/de/ark/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/de/ark/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/ark
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/ark/ark-comment.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/ark/ark-mainwindow.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/ark/create-archive.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/ark/create-protected-archive.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/ark/extract-dialog.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/ark/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/ark/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/es/ark
/usr/share/doc/HTML/es/ark/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/es/ark/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/et/ark
/usr/share/doc/HTML/et/ark/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/et/ark/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/fr/ark
/usr/share/doc/HTML/fr/ark/ark-mainwindow.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/fr/ark/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/fr/ark/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/gl/ark
/usr/share/doc/HTML/gl/ark/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/gl/ark/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/it/ark
/usr/share/doc/HTML/it/ark/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/it/ark/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/nl/ark
/usr/share/doc/HTML/nl/ark/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/nl/ark/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/pl/ark
/usr/share/doc/HTML/pl/ark/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/pl/ark/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/pt/ark
/usr/share/doc/HTML/pt/ark/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/pt/ark/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/pt_BR/ark
/usr/share/doc/HTML/pt_BR/ark/ark-mainwindow.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/pt_BR/ark/create-protected-archive.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/pt_BR/ark/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/pt_BR/ark/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/ru/ark
/usr/share/doc/HTML/ru/ark/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/ru/ark/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/sr/ark
/usr/share/doc/HTML/sr/ark/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/sr/ark/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/sv/ark
/usr/share/doc/HTML/sv/ark/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/sv/ark/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/uk/ark
/usr/share/doc/HTML/uk/ark/ark-comment.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/uk/ark/ark-mainwindow.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/uk/ark/create-archive.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/uk/ark/create-protected-archive.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/uk/ark/extract-dialog.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/uk/ark/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/uk/ark/index.docbook
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/ark.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/ark.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps/ark.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/ark.svgz
/usr/share/kxmlgui5/ark
/usr/share/kxmlgui5/ark/ark_viewer.rc
/usr/share/licenses/ark
/usr/share/licenses/ark/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/bs/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca@valencia/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/fa/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/ga/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/hi/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/ia/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/is/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/kk/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/km/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/lv/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/mr/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/nds/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/nn/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/ug/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/ark.mo
/usr/share/man/ca/man1/ark.1.gz
/usr/share/man/de/man1/ark.1.gz
/usr/share/man/es/man1/ark.1.gz
/usr/share/man/fr/man1/ark.1.gz
/usr/share/man/gl/man1/ark.1.gz
/usr/share/man/it/man1/ark.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ark.1.gz
/usr/share/man/nl/man1/ark.1.gz
/usr/share/man/pt/man1/ark.1.gz
/usr/share/man/pt_BR/man1/ark.1.gz
/usr/share/man/sr/man1/ark.1.gz
/usr/share/man/sv/man1/ark.1.gz
/usr/share/man/uk/man1/ark.1.gz
/usr/share/metainfo/org.kde.ark.appdata.xml
/usr/share/mime/packages/kerfuffle.xml
/usr/share/qlogging-categories5/ark.categories
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ark on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.
