How To Install blosc-bench on CentOS 8

blosc-bench is Benchmark for the Blosc compressor

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install blosc-bench on CentOS 8.

What is blosc-bench

The blosc-bench package contains a benchmark suite which evaluates the performance of Blosc, and compares it with memcpy.

We can use yum or dnf to install blosc-bench on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install blosc-bench.

Install blosc-bench on CentOS 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install blosc-bench using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install blosc-bench

Install blosc-bench on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install blosc-bench using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install blosc-bench

How To Uninstall blosc-bench on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the blosc-bench package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove blosc-bench

blosc-bench Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/blosc-bench
/usr/bin/blosc-plot-times
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/2d
/usr/lib/.build-id/2d/f0e7667cad84430403b022be1762116c5f1736
/usr/share/doc/blosc/bench/bench.c

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install blosc-bench on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.