How To Install unzip on Ubuntu
Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )
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Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install unzip on Ubuntu.
What is unzip
unzip is:
InfoZIP’s unzip program. With the exception of multi-volume archives (ie, .ZIP files that are split across several disks using PKZIP’s /& option), this can handle any file produced either by PKZIP, or the corresponding InfoZIP zip program.
This version supports encryption.
There are three methods to install unzip on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install unzip Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install unzip using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install unzip
Install unzip Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install unzip using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install unzip
Install unzip Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install unzip using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install unzip
How To Uninstall unzip on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the unzip package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove unzip
Uninstall unzip And Its Dependencies
To uninstall unzip and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove unzip
Remove unzip Configurations and Data
To remove unzip configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge unzip
Remove unzip configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove unzip configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge unzip
Dependencies
unzip have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install unzip package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.