How To Install pbzip2 on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install pbzip2 on Fedora 34.
What is pbzip2
PBZIP2 is a parallel implementation of the bzip2 block-sorting file compressor that uses pthreads and achieves near-linear speedup on SMP machines. The output of this version is fully compatible with bzip2 v1.0.2 or newer (ie decompressed with bzip2).
We can use yum or dnf to install pbzip2 on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install pbzip2.
Install pbzip2 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 pbzip2 using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install pbzip2
Install pbzip2 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 pbzip2 using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install pbzip2
How To Uninstall pbzip2 on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the pbzip2 package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove pbzip2
pbzip2 Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/pbunzip2
/usr/bin/pbzcat
/usr/bin/pbzip2
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/03
/usr/lib/.build-id/03/4a0bfd21e2f2565ec93203375ef3704dab29e2
/usr/share/doc/pbzip2
/usr/share/doc/pbzip2/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/pbzip2/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/pbzip2/README
/usr/share/licenses/pbzip2
/usr/share/licenses/pbzip2/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/pbzip2.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install pbzip2 on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.
