Installing Zip and Unzip Files under Linux

Installing Zip and Unzip Files under Linux

 

By default, Linux does not have installed the zip and unzip utilities installed. To install it, follow the steps below:

 

1)     Login to Shell using root user

2)     Type following two commands to install zip and unzip program:

 

 

            # apt-get install zip

            # apt-get install unzip

 

3)     you can use yum command to install zip and unzip program:

 

            # yum install zip

            # yum install unzip

 

• zip is a compression and file packaging utility for Linux and Unix (including FreeBSD, Solaris etc).
• unzip will list, test, or extract files from a ZIP archive files.