How To Install hyperscan on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install hyperscan on CentOS 8.
What is hyperscan
Hyperscan is a high-performance multiple regex matching library. It follows the regular expression syntax of the commonly-used libpcre library, but is a standalone library with its own C API. Hyperscan uses hybrid automata techniques to allow simultaneous matching of large numbers (up to tens of thousands) of regular expressions and for the matching of regular expressions across streams of data. Hyperscan is typically used in a DPI library stack.
We can use yum or dnf to install hyperscan on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install hyperscan.
Install hyperscan 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 hyperscan using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install hyperscan
Install hyperscan 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 hyperscan using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install hyperscan
How To Uninstall hyperscan on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the hyperscan package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove hyperscan
hyperscan Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/a3
/usr/lib/.build-id/a3/a628afae0d6d4887107c5aa8728d96127c3b53
/usr/lib/.build-id/e0
/usr/lib/.build-id/e0/1c197eb789c78aefdb2e00dd93e9f1a705a9d8
/usr/lib64/libhs.so.5
/usr/lib64/libhs.so.5.3.0
/usr/lib64/libhs_runtime.so.5
/usr/lib64/libhs_runtime.so.5.3.0
/usr/share/doc/hyperscan/examples/README.md
/usr/share/doc/hyperscan/examples/patbench.cc
/usr/share/doc/hyperscan/examples/pcapscan.cc
/usr/share/doc/hyperscan/examples/simplegrep.c
/usr/share/licenses/hyperscan
/usr/share/licenses/hyperscan/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/hyperscan/LICENSE
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install hyperscan on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.