How To Install fstrm on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install fstrm on Rocky Linux 8. fstrm is Frame Streams implementation in C

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install fstrm on Rocky Linux 8.

What is fstrm

Frame Streams is a light weight, binary clean protocol that allows for the transport of arbitrarily encoded data payload sequences with minimal framing overhead – just four bytes per data frame. Frame Streams does not specify an encoding format for data frames and can be used with any data serialization format that produces byte sequences, such as Protocol Buffers, XML, JSON, MessagePack, YAML, etc.

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

Install fstrm 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 fstrm using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install fstrm

Install fstrm 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 fstrm using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install fstrm

How To Uninstall fstrm on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the fstrm package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove fstrm

fstrm Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/81
/usr/lib/.build-id/81/85fd9512e660c4dfab383d236d3e2be81808cf
/usr/lib64/libfstrm.so.0
/usr/lib64/libfstrm.so.0.1.0
/usr/share/doc/fstrm
/usr/share/doc/fstrm/COPYRIGHT
/usr/share/doc/fstrm/LICENSE
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/82
/usr/lib/.build-id/82/3a44dab7dd56156ed556d68ddee2ce98354c05
/usr/lib/libfstrm.so.0
/usr/lib/libfstrm.so.0.1.0
/usr/share/doc/fstrm
/usr/share/doc/fstrm/COPYRIGHT
/usr/share/doc/fstrm/LICENSE

References

Summary

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