How To Install brotli on CentOS 8

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Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install brotli on CentOS 8.

What is brotli

Brotli is a generic-purpose lossless compression algorithm that compresses data using a combination of a modern variant of the LZ77 algorithm, Huffman coding and 2nd order context modeling, with a compression ratio comparable to the best currently available general-purpose compression methods. It is similar in speed with deflate but offers more dense compression. brotli 1.0.6 3.el8 x86_64 323 k brotli-1.0.6-3.el8.src.rpm baseos Lossless compression algorithm https MIT Brotli is a generic-purpose lossless compression algorithm that compresses data using a combination of a modern variant of the LZ77 algorithm, Huffman coding and 2nd order context modeling, with a compression ratio comparable to the best currently available general-purpose compression methods. It is similar in speed with deflate but offers more dense compression.

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

Install brotli 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 brotli using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install brotli

Install brotli 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 brotli using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install brotli

How To Uninstall brotli on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove brotli

brotli Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/brotli
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/02
/usr/lib/.build-id/02/ca55f606e65083eb24cdc383da28bc584fdeb7
/usr/lib/.build-id/57
/usr/lib/.build-id/57/622898025c873f92605b48695636e1dbcb12de
/usr/lib/.build-id/79
/usr/lib/.build-id/79/4331ce71b0359d764919d5ad85b6b729ae1d16
/usr/lib/.build-id/7a
/usr/lib/.build-id/7a/ba02bb777a48f1841c634c1dc6d9c601ee8945
/usr/lib/libbrotlicommon.so.1
/usr/lib/libbrotlicommon.so.1.0.6
/usr/lib/libbrotlidec.so.1
/usr/lib/libbrotlidec.so.1.0.6
/usr/lib/libbrotlienc.so.1
/usr/lib/libbrotlienc.so.1.0.6
/usr/share/licenses/brotli
/usr/share/licenses/brotli/LICENSE
/usr/bin/brotli
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/21
/usr/lib/.build-id/21/02f8b99ecbb8abf6532fe8a82b5387230f5ee7
/usr/lib/.build-id/ad
/usr/lib/.build-id/ad/bb8adc50a28ad821624155581644b10cbe6ab0
/usr/lib/.build-id/bb
/usr/lib/.build-id/bb/c1ffd06d756decbccd78177483774e6c8cddae
/usr/lib/.build-id/fa
/usr/lib/.build-id/fa/4000cf1815de5128fd769da6baa31e71a9e784
/usr/lib64/libbrotlicommon.so.1
/usr/lib64/libbrotlicommon.so.1.0.6
/usr/lib64/libbrotlidec.so.1
/usr/lib64/libbrotlidec.so.1.0.6
/usr/lib64/libbrotlienc.so.1
/usr/lib64/libbrotlienc.so.1.0.6
/usr/share/licenses/brotli
/usr/share/licenses/brotli/LICENSE

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Summary

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