How To Install csnappy on Fedora 34

csnappy is Snappy compression library ported to C Snappy compression library ported to C

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install csnappy on Fedora 34.

What is `csnappy`

This is an ANSI C port of Google’s Snappy library. Snappy is a compression library designed for speed rather than compression ratios. csnappy 0 20.20191203gitcbd205b.fc34 x86_64 17 k csnappy-0-20.20191203gitcbd205b.fc34.src.rpm fedora Snappy compression library ported to C https BSD This is an ANSI C port of Google’s Snappy library. Snappy is a compression library designed for speed rather than compression ratios.

We can use yum or dnf to install csnappy on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install csnappy.

Install csnappy on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install csnappy using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install csnappy

Install csnappy on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install csnappy using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install csnappy

How To Uninstall csnappy on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove csnappy

csnappy Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/09
/usr/lib/.build-id/09/0428ab76fc66c31e7d4ecd54f168d4d52b24ac
/usr/lib/libcsnappy.so
/usr/share/doc/csnappy
/usr/share/doc/csnappy/README
/usr/share/doc/csnappy/TODO
/usr/share/licenses/csnappy
/usr/share/licenses/csnappy/LICENSE
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/f5
/usr/lib/.build-id/f5/7b7f9de8a4e4d06a7d605f373be233acee0801
/usr/lib64/libcsnappy.so
/usr/share/doc/csnappy
/usr/share/doc/csnappy/README
/usr/share/doc/csnappy/TODO
/usr/share/licenses/csnappy
/usr/share/licenses/csnappy/LICENSE

References

[csnappy website](https://github.com/zeevt/csnappy https://github.com/zeevt/csnappy)

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install csnappy on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.