How To Install libzip-tools.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libzip-tools.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libzip-tools.x86_64 is Command line tools from libzip

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libzip-tools.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `libzip-tools.x86_64`

The libzip-tools package provides command line tools split off libzip - zipcmp - zipmerge - ziptool

We can use yum to install libzip-tools.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libzip-tools.x86_64.

Install libzip-tools.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install libzip-tools.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libzip-tools.x86_64

How To Uninstall libzip-tools.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the libzip-tools.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove libzip-tools.x86_64

libzip-tools.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/zipcmp
/usr/bin/zipmerge
/usr/bin/ziptool
/usr/share/man/man1/zipcmp.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/zipmerge.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ziptool.1.gz

References

libzip-tools.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libzip-tools.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.