How To Install pigz on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install pigz
on Fedora 34.
What is pigz
pigz, which stands for parallel implementation of gzip, is a fully functional replacement for gzip that exploits multiple processors and multiple cores to the hilt when compressing data.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install pigz
on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install pigz.
Install pigz 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 pigz
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install pigz
Install pigz 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 pigz
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install pigz
How To Uninstall pigz on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the pigz
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove pigz
pigz Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/pigz
/usr/bin/unpigz
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/88
/usr/lib/.build-id/88/04fd6e9f27b8f074efb2977e8326baa79490a3
/usr/lib/.build-id/88/04fd6e9f27b8f074efb2977e8326baa79490a3.1
/usr/share/doc/pigz
/usr/share/doc/pigz/README
/usr/share/doc/pigz/pigz.pdf
/usr/share/man/man1/pigz.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install pigz
on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.