How To Install pbzip2 on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install pbzip2 on CentOS 8.
What is pbzip2
PBZIP2 is a parallel implementation of the bzip2 block-sorting file compressor that uses pthreads and achieves near-linear speedup on SMP machines. The output of this version is fully compatible with bzip2 v1.0.2 or newer (ie decompressed with bzip2).
We can use yum or dnf to install pbzip2 on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install pbzip2.
Install pbzip2 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 pbzip2 using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install pbzip2
Install pbzip2 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 pbzip2 using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install pbzip2
How To Uninstall pbzip2 on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the pbzip2 package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove pbzip2
pbzip2 Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/pbunzip2
/usr/bin/pbzcat
/usr/bin/pbzip2
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/5d
/usr/lib/.build-id/5d/54dbbd8c8820adcfa80757098ac9105ce5e53a
/usr/share/doc/pbzip2
/usr/share/doc/pbzip2/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/pbzip2/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/pbzip2/README
/usr/share/licenses/pbzip2
/usr/share/licenses/pbzip2/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/pbzip2.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install pbzip2 on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.