How To Install lzop.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install lzop.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. lzop.x86_64 is Real-time file compressor

Introduction

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

What is `lzop.x86_64`

lzop is a compression utility which is designed to be a companion to gzip. It is based on the LZO data compression library and its main advantages over gzip are much higher compression and decompression speed at the cost of some compression ratio. The lzop compression utility was designed with the goals of reliability, speed, portability and with reasonable drop-in compatibility to gzip.

We can use yum to install lzop.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install lzop.x86_64.

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

sudo yum -y install lzop.x86_64

How To Uninstall lzop.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove lzop.x86_64

lzop.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/lzop
/usr/share/doc/lzop-1.03
/usr/share/doc/lzop-1.03/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/lzop-1.03/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/lzop-1.03/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/lzop-1.03/README
/usr/share/doc/lzop-1.03/THANKS
/usr/share/man/man1/lzop.1.gz

References

lzop.x86_64 website

Summary

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