How To Install lzip on Fedora 34

lzip is LZMA compressor with integrity checking

Introduction

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

What is lzip

Lzip compresses data using LZMA (Lempel-Ziv-Markov chain-Algorithm). It supports integrity checking using CRC (Cyclic Redundancy Check). To archive multiple files, tar can be used with lzip. Please note, that the lzip file format (.lz) is not compatible with the lzma file format (.lzma).

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

Install lzip 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 lzip using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install lzip

Install lzip 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 lzip using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install lzip

How To Uninstall lzip on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove lzip

lzip Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/lzip
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/b4
/usr/lib/.build-id/b4/c9296e4c6f23308bfba00e552df30bd6deb60d
/usr/share/doc/lzip
/usr/share/doc/lzip/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/lzip/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/lzip/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/lzip/README
/usr/share/info/lzip.info.gz
/usr/share/licenses/lzip
/usr/share/licenses/lzip/COPYING.txt
/usr/share/man/man1/lzip.1.gz

References

Summary

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