How To Install blosc-bench on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install blosc-bench on Rocky Linux 8. blosc-bench is Benchmark for the Blosc compressor

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install blosc-bench on Rocky Linux 8.

What is blosc-bench

The blosc-bench package contains a benchmark suite which evaluates the performance of Blosc, and compares it with memcpy.

We can use yum or dnf to install blosc-bench on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install blosc-bench.

Install blosc-bench on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

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

sudo dnf -y install blosc-bench

Install blosc-bench on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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

sudo yum -y install blosc-bench

How To Uninstall blosc-bench on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the blosc-bench package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove blosc-bench

blosc-bench Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/blosc-bench
/usr/bin/blosc-plot-times
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/2d
/usr/lib/.build-id/2d/f0e7667cad84430403b022be1762116c5f1736
/usr/share/doc/blosc/bench/bench.c

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install blosc-bench on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.