How To Install qatlib on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install qatlib on Fedora 34.
What is qatlib
Intel QuickAssist Technology (Intel QAT) provides hardware acceleration for offloading security, authentication and compression services from the CPU, thus significantly increasing the performance and efficiency of standard platform solutions. Its services include symmetric encryption and authentication, asymmetric encryption, digital signatures, RSA, DH and ECC, and lossless data compression. This package provides user space libraries that allow access to Intel QuickAssist devices and expose the Intel QuickAssist APIs.
We can use yum or dnf to install qatlib on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install qatlib.
Install qatlib 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 qatlib using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install qatlib
Install qatlib 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 qatlib using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install qatlib
How To Uninstall qatlib on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the qatlib package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove qatlib
qatlib Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/38
/usr/lib/.build-id/38/c7e9248b13683d2e53bacc6a32c21516df9bba
/usr/lib/.build-id/93
/usr/lib/.build-id/93/50020bf5324048309562ad4e8738ac6e91ed15
/usr/lib/.build-id/d0
/usr/lib/.build-id/d0/83f24032f772aa38143833dcfd372ddeaf7e5e
/usr/lib/systemd/system/qat.service
/usr/lib64/libqat.so.0
/usr/lib64/libqat.so.0.1.0
/usr/lib64/libusdm.so.0
/usr/lib64/libusdm.so.0.0.0
/usr/sbin/qat_init.sh
/usr/sbin/qatmgr
/usr/share/licenses/qatlib
/usr/share/licenses/qatlib/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man8/qat_init.sh.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/qatmgr.8.gz
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/bd
/usr/lib/.build-id/bd/f1f8ce4f8c3ebdaf25a462de9c3d9ae4132db9
/usr/lib/.build-id/c1
/usr/lib/.build-id/c1/6db8aed926992e21c3daa5e218ade0ff7dca55
/usr/lib/.build-id/c5
/usr/lib/.build-id/c5/a87c62cd9c8c221d05b1857a8c322cf2520a1b
/usr/lib/systemd/system/qat.service
/usr/lib64/libqat.so.0
/usr/lib64/libqat.so.0.0.0
/usr/lib64/libusdm.so.0
/usr/lib64/libusdm.so.0.0.0
/usr/sbin/qat_init.sh
/usr/sbin/qatmgr
/usr/share/licenses/qatlib
/usr/share/licenses/qatlib/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man8/qat_init.sh.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/qatmgr.8.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install qatlib on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.
