How To Install lzo on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install lzo on CentOS 8.
What is lzo
LZO is a portable lossless data compression library written in ANSI C. It offers pretty fast compression and very fast decompression. Decompression requires no memory. In addition there are slower compression levels achieving a quite competitive compression ratio while still decompressing at this very high speed. lzo 2.08 14.el8 i686 70 k lzo-2.08-14.el8.src.rpm baseos Data compression library with very fast (de)compression http GPLv2+ LZO is a portable lossless data compression library written in ANSI C. It offers pretty fast compression and very fast decompression. Decompression requires no memory. In addition there are slower compression levels achieving a quite competitive compression ratio while still decompressing at this very high speed.
We can use yum or dnf to install lzo on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install lzo.
Install lzo 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 lzo using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install lzo
Install lzo 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 lzo using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install lzo
How To Uninstall lzo on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the lzo package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove lzo
lzo Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/01
/usr/lib/.build-id/01/5b00637fa6aa425a24a6076ff8d2f6c1c64ee6
/usr/lib/liblzo2.so.2
/usr/lib/liblzo2.so.2.0.0
/usr/share/doc/lzo
/usr/share/doc/lzo/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/lzo/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/lzo/THANKS
/usr/share/licenses/lzo
/usr/share/licenses/lzo/COPYING
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/4d
/usr/lib/.build-id/4d/e08a272aca34817d8bfe88ccd9223415a7a599
/usr/lib64/liblzo2.so.2
/usr/lib64/liblzo2.so.2.0.0
/usr/share/doc/lzo
/usr/share/doc/lzo/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/lzo/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/lzo/THANKS
/usr/share/licenses/lzo
/usr/share/licenses/lzo/COPYING
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install lzo on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.