How To Install lz4.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install lz4.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. lz4.i686 is Extremely fast compression algorithm

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install lz4.i686 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `lz4.i686`

LZ4 is an extremely fast loss-less compression algorithm, providing compression speed at 400 MB/s per core, scalable with multi-core CPU. It also features an extremely fast decoder, with speed in multiple GB/s per core, typically reaching RAM speed limits on multi-core systems.

We can use yum to install lz4.i686 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install lz4.i686.

Install lz4.i686 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install lz4.i686 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install lz4.i686

How To Uninstall lz4.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the lz4.i686 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove lz4.i686

lz4.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/lz4
/usr/bin/lz4c
/usr/bin/lz4cat
/usr/bin/unlz4
/usr/lib/liblz4.so.1
/usr/lib/liblz4.so.1.7.5
/usr/share/doc/lz4-1.7.5
/usr/share/doc/lz4-1.7.5/NEWS
/usr/share/licenses/lz4-1.7.5
/usr/share/licenses/lz4-1.7.5/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/lz4-1.7.5/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/lz4.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/lz4c.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/lz4cat.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/unlz4.1.gz

References

lz4.i686 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install lz4.i686 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.