How To Install ucl on Fedora 34

ucl is Portable lossless data compression library Portable lossless data compression library

Introduction

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

What is `ucl`

UCL is a portable lossless data compression library written in ANSI C. UCL implements a number of compression algorithms that achieve an excellent compression ratio while allowing very fast decompression. Decompression requires no additional memory. ucl 1.03 30.fc34 x86_64 39 k ucl-1.03-30.fc34.src.rpm fedora Portable lossless data compression library http GPLv2+ UCL is a portable lossless data compression library written in ANSI C. UCL implements a number of compression algorithms that achieve an excellent compression ratio while allowing very fast decompression. Decompression requires no additional memory.

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

Install ucl 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 ucl using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install ucl

Install ucl 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 ucl using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install ucl

How To Uninstall ucl on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove ucl

ucl Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/7b
/usr/lib/.build-id/7b/dbd85518a63967b35018bc29447354d970cff7
/usr/lib/libucl.so.1
/usr/lib/libucl.so.1.0.0
/usr/share/doc/ucl
/usr/share/doc/ucl/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/ucl/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/ucl/README
/usr/share/doc/ucl/THANKS
/usr/share/doc/ucl/TODO
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/e1
/usr/lib/.build-id/e1/cc7f4559bd58a52b749f3956ba0660b802ce5c
/usr/lib64/libucl.so.1
/usr/lib64/libucl.so.1.0.0
/usr/share/doc/ucl
/usr/share/doc/ucl/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/ucl/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/ucl/README
/usr/share/doc/ucl/THANKS
/usr/share/doc/ucl/TODO

References

[ucl website](http://www.oberhumer.com/opensource/ucl/ http://www.oberhumer.com/opensource/ucl/)

Summary

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