How To Install fstrm on CentOS 8

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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

Summary

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