Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install attr on CentOS 8.
What is attr
A set of tools for manipulating extended attributes on filesystem objects, in particular getfattr(1) and setfattr(1). An attr(1) command is also provided which is largely compatible with the SGI IRIX tool of the same name.
We can use yum or dnf to install attr on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install attr.
Install attr 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 attr using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install attr
Install attr 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 attr using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install attr
How To Uninstall attr on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the attr package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove attr
attr Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/attr
/usr/bin/getfattr
/usr/bin/setfattr
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/00
/usr/lib/.build-id/00/ba7daf5da310e3f47e5a16bc0f6cb0e23d525a
/usr/lib/.build-id/e0
/usr/lib/.build-id/e0/4809b38b172433a2812e8935eeb12c8f0adb49
/usr/lib/.build-id/ee
/usr/lib/.build-id/ee/5a3d7a330291b142ca7a99c749fbfbbd9d5596
/usr/share/doc/attr
/usr/share/doc/attr/CHANGES
/usr/share/licenses/attr
/usr/share/licenses/attr/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/attr/COPYING.LGPL
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/attr.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/attr.mo
/usr/share/locale/en@boldquot/LC_MESSAGES/attr.mo
/usr/share/locale/en@quot/LC_MESSAGES/attr.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/attr.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/attr.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/attr.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/attr.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/attr.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/attr.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/attr.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/getfattr.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/setfattr.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install attr on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.
