How To Install lz4.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install lz4.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. lz4.x86_64 is Extremely fast compression algorithm

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install lz4.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `lz4.x86_64`

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.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install lz4.x86_64.

Install lz4.x86_64 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.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install lz4.x86_64

How To Uninstall lz4.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the lz4.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove lz4.x86_64

lz4.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/lz4
/usr/bin/lz4c
/usr/bin/lz4cat
/usr/bin/unlz4
/usr/lib64/liblz4.so.1
/usr/lib64/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.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install lz4.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.