How To Install lbzip2 on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install lbzip2 on Rocky Linux 8. lbzip2 is Fast, multi-threaded bzip2 utility

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install lbzip2 on Rocky Linux 8.

What is lbzip2

lbzip2 is an independent, multi-threaded implementation of bzip2. It is commonly the fastest SMP (and uniprocessor) bzip2 compressor and decompressor.

We can use yum or dnf to install lbzip2 on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install lbzip2.

Install lbzip2 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 lbzip2 using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install lbzip2

Install lbzip2 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 lbzip2 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install lbzip2

How To Uninstall lbzip2 on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the lbzip2 package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove lbzip2

lbzip2 Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/lbunzip2
/usr/bin/lbzcat
/usr/bin/lbzip2
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/97
/usr/lib/.build-id/97/5eeacd6cd1efe870028ed7706b121c6d4da662
/usr/share/doc/lbzip2
/usr/share/doc/lbzip2/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/lbzip2/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/lbzip2/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/lbzip2/README
/usr/share/licenses/lbzip2
/usr/share/licenses/lbzip2/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/lbunzip2.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/lbzcat.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/lbzip2.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install lbzip2 on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.