How To Install fastlz on Fedora 34

fastlz is Portable real-time compression library Portable real-time compression library

Introduction

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

What is `fastlz`

FastLZ is a lossless data compression library designed for real-time compression and decompression. It favors speed over compression ratio. Decompression requires no memory. Decompression algorithm is very simple, and thus extremely fast. fastlz 0.1.0 0.15.20070619svnrev12.fc34 x86_64 15 k fastlz-0.1.0-0.15.20070619svnrev12.fc34.src.rpm fedora Portable real-time compression library http MIT FastLZ is a lossless data compression library designed for real-time compression and decompression. It favors speed over compression ratio. Decompression requires no memory. Decompression algorithm is very simple, and thus extremely fast.

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

Install fastlz 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 fastlz using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install fastlz

Install fastlz 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 fastlz using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install fastlz

How To Uninstall fastlz on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove fastlz

fastlz Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/48
/usr/lib/.build-id/48/4470e593d926492b51a631e5edfafa8c462685
/usr/lib/libfastlz.so.0
/usr/share/licenses/fastlz
/usr/share/licenses/fastlz/LICENSE
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/58
/usr/lib/.build-id/58/44f2205941b734afaf0b2ff0ed4937dee77a5a
/usr/lib64/libfastlz.so.0
/usr/share/licenses/fastlz
/usr/share/licenses/fastlz/LICENSE

References

[fastlz website](http://fastlz.org/ http://fastlz.org/)

Summary

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