How To Install lzop on CentOS 8

lzop is Real-time file compressor

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install lzop on CentOS 8.

What is lzop

lzop is a compression utility which is designed to be a companion to gzip. It is based on the LZO data compression library and its main advantages over gzip are much higher compression and decompression speed at the cost of some compression ratio. The lzop compression utility was designed with the goals of reliability, speed, portability and with reasonable drop-in compatibility to gzip.

We can use yum or dnf to install lzop on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install lzop.

Install lzop 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 lzop using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install lzop

Install lzop 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 lzop using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install lzop

How To Uninstall lzop on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the lzop package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove lzop

lzop Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/lzop
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/0b
/usr/lib/.build-id/0b/5e61e59e5d4405e32a2c8c3da08ee9d112d38d
/usr/share/doc/lzop
/usr/share/doc/lzop/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/lzop/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/lzop/README
/usr/share/doc/lzop/THANKS
/usr/share/licenses/lzop
/usr/share/licenses/lzop/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/lzop.1.gz

References

Summary

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