How To Install fedora-repo-zdicts on CentOS 8

fedora-repo-zdicts is Zstd dictionaries for Fedora repository metadata

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install fedora-repo-zdicts on CentOS 8.

What is fedora-repo-zdicts

zchunk is a compressed file format that splits the file into independent chunks. This package contains zstd libraries tailored for Fedora’s repository metadata to improve their compression.

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

Install fedora-repo-zdicts 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 fedora-repo-zdicts using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install fedora-repo-zdicts

Install fedora-repo-zdicts 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 fedora-repo-zdicts using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install fedora-repo-zdicts

How To Uninstall fedora-repo-zdicts on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the fedora-repo-zdicts package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove fedora-repo-zdicts

fedora-repo-zdicts Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/share/doc/fedora-repo-zdicts
/usr/share/doc/fedora-repo-zdicts/README.md
/usr/share/fedora-repo-zdicts
/usr/share/fedora-repo-zdicts/f32
/usr/share/fedora-repo-zdicts/f32/comps.xml.zdict
/usr/share/fedora-repo-zdicts/f32/filelists.xml.zdict
/usr/share/fedora-repo-zdicts/f32/other.xml.zdict
/usr/share/fedora-repo-zdicts/f32/primary.xml.zdict
/usr/share/fedora-repo-zdicts/f33
/usr/share/fedora-repo-zdicts/f33/comps.xml.zdict
/usr/share/fedora-repo-zdicts/f33/filelists.xml.zdict
/usr/share/fedora-repo-zdicts/f33/other.xml.zdict
/usr/share/fedora-repo-zdicts/f33/primary.xml.zdict
/usr/share/fedora-repo-zdicts/f34
/usr/share/fedora-repo-zdicts/f34/comps.zdict
/usr/share/fedora-repo-zdicts/f34/filelists.xml.zdict
/usr/share/fedora-repo-zdicts/f34/other.xml.zdict
/usr/share/fedora-repo-zdicts/f34/primary.xml.zdict
/usr/share/fedora-repo-zdicts/rawhide
/usr/share/fedora-repo-zdicts/rawhide/comps.zdict
/usr/share/fedora-repo-zdicts/rawhide/filelists.xml.zdict
/usr/share/fedora-repo-zdicts/rawhide/other.xml.zdict
/usr/share/fedora-repo-zdicts/rawhide/primary.xml.zdict
/usr/share/licenses/fedora-repo-zdicts
/usr/share/licenses/fedora-repo-zdicts/LICENSE

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install fedora-repo-zdicts on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.