How To Install lzo on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install lzo on Rocky Linux 8.
What is lzo
LZO is a portable lossless data compression library written in ANSI C. It offers pretty fast compression and very fast decompression. Decompression requires no memory. In addition there are slower compression levels achieving a quite competitive compression ratio while still decompressing at this very high speed.
We can use yum or dnf to install lzo on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install lzo.
Install lzo 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 lzo using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install lzo
Install lzo 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 lzo using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install lzo
How To Uninstall lzo on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the lzo package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove lzo
lzo Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/e6
/usr/lib/.build-id/e6/cf61bb282f21cf49dcc2bef5fd9407a32c18b7
/usr/lib64/liblzo2.so.2
/usr/lib64/liblzo2.so.2.0.0
/usr/share/doc/lzo
/usr/share/doc/lzo/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/lzo/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/lzo/THANKS
/usr/share/licenses/lzo
/usr/share/licenses/lzo/COPYING
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/fc
/usr/lib/.build-id/fc/4d5eca3108757175616025b8b37872bb288686
/usr/lib/liblzo2.so.2
/usr/lib/liblzo2.so.2.0.0
/usr/share/doc/lzo
/usr/share/doc/lzo/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/lzo/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/lzo/THANKS
/usr/share/licenses/lzo
/usr/share/licenses/lzo/COPYING
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install lzo on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.
