How To Install erlang-snappy on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install erlang-snappy in Fedora 36. erlang-snappy is An Erlang NIF wrapper for Google’s snappy library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install erlang-snappy on Fedora 36.

What is `erlang-snappy`

An Erlang NIF wrapper for Google’s snappy compressor/decompressor.

We can use yum or dnf to install erlang-snappy on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install erlang-snappy.

Install erlang-snappy on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install erlang-snappy using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install erlang-snappy

Install erlang-snappy on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install erlang-snappy using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install erlang-snappy

How To Uninstall erlang-snappy on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the erlang-snappy package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove erlang-snappy

erlang-snappy Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/e6
/usr/lib/.build-id/e6/5cbbcfb64c6bfd4e32d650a2304a0f6a1597ce
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/snappy-1.1.1
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/snappy-1.1.1/ebin
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/snappy-1.1.1/ebin/snappy.app
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/snappy-1.1.1/ebin/snappy.beam
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/snappy-1.1.1/priv
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/snappy-1.1.1/priv/snappy_nif.so
/usr/share/doc/erlang-snappy
/usr/share/doc/erlang-snappy/README.md

References

erlang-snappy website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install erlang-snappy on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).