How To Install qatlib on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install qatlib on CentOS 8.
What is qatlib
Intel QuickAssist Technology (Intel QAT) provides hardware acceleration for offloading security, authentication and compression services from the CPU, thus significantly increasing the performance and efficiency of standard platform solutions. Its services include symmetric encryption and authentication, asymmetric encryption, digital signatures, RSA, DH and ECC, and lossless data compression. This package provides user space libraries that allow access to Intel QuickAssist devices and expose the Intel QuickAssist APIs.
We can use yum or dnf to install qatlib on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install qatlib.
Install qatlib 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 qatlib using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install qatlib
Install qatlib 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 qatlib using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install qatlib
How To Uninstall qatlib on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the qatlib package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove qatlib
qatlib Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/63
/usr/lib/.build-id/63/d7add4edabfcbda56909e9dd19cbb1491eb5c6
/usr/lib/.build-id/e5
/usr/lib/.build-id/e5/ad799f1dc354a0ef40d85dc300cbb47465c023
/usr/lib/.build-id/ef
/usr/lib/.build-id/ef/43127be805c20e80783ccf8e8d2e5e68cd7a24
/usr/lib/systemd/system/qat.service
/usr/lib64/libqat.so.0
/usr/lib64/libqat.so.0.0.0
/usr/lib64/libusdm.so.0
/usr/lib64/libusdm.so.0.0.0
/usr/sbin/qat_init.sh
/usr/sbin/qatmgr
/usr/share/licenses/qatlib
/usr/share/licenses/qatlib/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man8/qat_init.sh.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/qatmgr.8.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install qatlib on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.