Utility `compress` could not be found in RHEL 9 or later

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

In our RHEL 7 Production server we have:

[root@rhel7 ~]# type compress
compress is /usr/bin/compress

But in RHEL 9 I could not find it.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
    • Release 9
    • Release 10

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