How To Install lzop on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install lzop on Fedora 34.
What is lzop
lzop is a compression utility which is designed to be a companion to gzip. It is based on the LZO data compression library and its main advantages over gzip are much higher compression and decompression speed at the cost of some compression ratio. The lzop compression utility was designed with the goals of reliability, speed, portability and with reasonable drop-in compatibility to gzip.
We can use yum or dnf to install lzop on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install lzop.
Install lzop 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 lzop using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install lzop
Install lzop 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 lzop using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install lzop
How To Uninstall lzop on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the lzop package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove lzop
lzop Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/lzop
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/ec
/usr/lib/.build-id/ec/e0681feb3b979c36d1d98128ff20b820ad69ad
/usr/share/doc/lzop
/usr/share/doc/lzop/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/lzop/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/lzop/README
/usr/share/doc/lzop/THANKS
/usr/share/licenses/lzop
/usr/share/licenses/lzop/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/lzop.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install lzop on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.
