How To Install pigz on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install pigz on CentOS 8.
What is pigz
pigz, which stands for parallel implementation of gzip, is a fully functional replacement for gzip that exploits multiple processors and multiple cores to the hilt when compressing data.
We can use yum or dnf to install pigz on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install pigz.
Install pigz 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 pigz using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install pigz
Install pigz 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 pigz using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install pigz
How To Uninstall pigz on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the pigz package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove pigz
pigz Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/pigz
/usr/bin/unpigz
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/d7
/usr/lib/.build-id/d7/29a7c8c343ad0da9032cfca00e7ee78bc3d3ab
/usr/lib/.build-id/d7/29a7c8c343ad0da9032cfca00e7ee78bc3d3ab.1
/usr/share/doc/pigz
/usr/share/doc/pigz/README
/usr/share/doc/pigz/pigz.pdf
/usr/share/man/man1/pigz.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install pigz on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.