How To Install lz4 on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install lz4 on CentOS 8.
What is lz4
LZ4 is an extremely fast loss-less compression algorithm, providing compression speed at 400 MB/s per core, scalable with multi-core CPU. It also features an extremely fast decoder, with speed in multiple GB/s per core, typically reaching RAM speed limits on multi-core systems.
We can use yum or dnf to install lz4 on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install lz4.
Install lz4 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 lz4 using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install lz4
Install lz4 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 lz4 using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install lz4
How To Uninstall lz4 on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the lz4 package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove lz4
lz4 Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/lz4
/usr/bin/lz4c
/usr/bin/lz4cat
/usr/bin/unlz4
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/8a
/usr/lib/.build-id/8a/270de63670fa024775f8b98ff36db05f78a90b
/usr/share/doc/lz4
/usr/share/doc/lz4/NEWS
/usr/share/licenses/lz4
/usr/share/licenses/lz4/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/lz4.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/lz4c.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/lz4cat.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/unlz4.1.gz
/usr/bin/lz4
/usr/bin/lz4c
/usr/bin/lz4cat
/usr/bin/unlz4
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/ef
/usr/lib/.build-id/ef/c1869757b28d5831f2851f5055d3c4fb7820bf
/usr/share/doc/lz4
/usr/share/doc/lz4/NEWS
/usr/share/licenses/lz4
/usr/share/licenses/lz4/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/lz4.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/lz4c.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/lz4cat.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/unlz4.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install lz4 on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.