How To Install python3-brotli on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-brotli on Rocky Linux 8. python3-brotli is Lossless compression algorithm (python 3)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-brotli on Rocky Linux 8.

What is python3-brotli

Brotli is a generic-purpose lossless compression algorithm that compresses data using a combination of a modern variant of the LZ77 algorithm, Huffman coding and 2nd order context modeling, with a compression ratio comparable to the best currently available general-purpose compression methods. It is similar in speed with deflate but offers more dense compression. This package installs a Python 3 module.

We can use yum or dnf to install python3-brotli on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install python3-brotli.

Install python3-brotli 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 python3-brotli using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install python3-brotli

Install python3-brotli 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 python3-brotli using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install python3-brotli

How To Uninstall python3-brotli on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the python3-brotli package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove python3-brotli

python3-brotli Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/a3
/usr/lib/.build-id/a3/33525f677fc7e104e7a1403bb5f32356fcb6a1
/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/Brotli-1.0.6-py3.6.egg-info
/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/Brotli-1.0.6-py3.6.egg-info/PKG-INFO
/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/Brotli-1.0.6-py3.6.egg-info/SOURCES.txt
/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/Brotli-1.0.6-py3.6.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/Brotli-1.0.6-py3.6.egg-info/top_level.txt
/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/__pycache__
/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/__pycache__/brotli.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/__pycache__/brotli.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/_brotli.cpython-36m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so
/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/brotli.py
/usr/share/licenses/python3-brotli
/usr/share/licenses/python3-brotli/LICENSE

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-brotli on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.