How To Install fstrm on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fstrm on CentOS 8.
What is fstrm
Frame Streams is a light weight, binary clean protocol that allows for the transport of arbitrarily encoded data payload sequences with minimal framing overhead – just four bytes per data frame. Frame Streams does not specify an encoding format for data frames and can be used with any data serialization format that produces byte sequences, such as Protocol Buffers, XML, JSON, MessagePack, YAML, etc. fstrm 0.6.0 3.el8.1 x86_64 29 k fstrm-0.6.0-3.el8.1.src.rpm appstream Frame Streams implementation in C https MIT Frame Streams is a light weight, binary clean protocol that allows for the transport of arbitrarily encoded data payload sequences with minimal framing overhead – just four bytes per data frame. Frame Streams does not specify an encoding format for data frames and can be used with any data serialization format that produces byte sequences, such as Protocol Buffers, XML, JSON, MessagePack, YAML, etc.
We can use yum or dnf to install fstrm on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install fstrm.
Install fstrm 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 fstrm using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install fstrm
Install fstrm 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 fstrm using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install fstrm
How To Uninstall fstrm on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the fstrm package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove fstrm
fstrm Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/07
/usr/lib/.build-id/07/4b5034adfc80ff9f5da34775a32698f91cd468
/usr/lib/libfstrm.so.0
/usr/lib/libfstrm.so.0.1.0
/usr/share/doc/fstrm
/usr/share/doc/fstrm/COPYRIGHT
/usr/share/doc/fstrm/LICENSE
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/63
/usr/lib/.build-id/63/4ab200e65a4763bd6a81784e802580370a7556
/usr/lib64/libfstrm.so.0
/usr/lib64/libfstrm.so.0.1.0
/usr/share/doc/fstrm
/usr/share/doc/fstrm/COPYRIGHT
/usr/share/doc/fstrm/LICENSE
References
- [fstrm website](https://github.com/farsightsec/fstrm https://github.com/farsightsec/fstrm)
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fstrm on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.