How To Install qtiocompressor on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install qtiocompressor on Rocky Linux 8. qtiocompressor is QIODevice that compresses data streams

Introduction

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

What is qtiocompressor

The class works on top of a QIODevice subclass, compressing data before it is written and decompressing it when it is read. Since QtIOCompressor works on streams, it does not have to see the entire data set before compressing or decompressing it. This can reduce the memory requirements when working on large data sets.

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

Install qtiocompressor 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 qtiocompressor using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install qtiocompressor

Install qtiocompressor 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 qtiocompressor using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install qtiocompressor

How To Uninstall qtiocompressor on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove qtiocompressor

qtiocompressor Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/6a
/usr/lib/.build-id/6a/bb062dacdd3edb350f3a2534a1e6a756f73648
/usr/lib64/libQt5Solutions_IOCompressor-2.3.so.1
/usr/lib64/libQt5Solutions_IOCompressor-2.3.so.1.0
/usr/lib64/libQt5Solutions_IOCompressor-2.3.so.1.0.0
/usr/share/doc/qtiocompressor
/usr/share/doc/qtiocompressor/README.TXT
/usr/share/licenses/qtiocompressor
/usr/share/licenses/qtiocompressor/LGPL_EXCEPTION.txt
/usr/share/licenses/qtiocompressor/LICENSE.GPL3
/usr/share/licenses/qtiocompressor/LICENSE.LGPL

References

Summary

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