How To Install blosc on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install blosc in Fedora 36. blosc is High performance compressor optimized for binary data

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install blosc on Fedora 36.

What is blosc

Blosc is a compression library designed to transmit data to the processor cache faster than the traditional non-compressed memory fetch. Compression ratios are not very high, but the decompression is very fast. Blosc is meant not only to reduce the size of large datasets on-disk or in-memory, but also to accelerate memory-bound computations.

We can use yum or dnf to install blosc on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install blosc.

Install blosc on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install blosc using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install blosc

Install blosc on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install blosc using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install blosc

How To Uninstall blosc on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove blosc

blosc Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/ca
/usr/lib/.build-id/ca/44db008ba131f854707103ce537bc166a5a174
/usr/lib64/libblosc.so.1
/usr/lib64/libblosc.so.1.21.1
/usr/share/doc/blosc
/usr/share/doc/blosc/ANNOUNCE.rst
/usr/share/doc/blosc/README.md
/usr/share/doc/blosc/README_CHUNK_FORMAT.rst
/usr/share/doc/blosc/README_THREADED.rst
/usr/share/doc/blosc/RELEASE_NOTES.rst
/usr/share/licenses/blosc
/usr/share/licenses/blosc/BITSHUFFLE.txt
/usr/share/licenses/blosc/BLOSC.txt
/usr/share/licenses/blosc/FASTLZ.txt
/usr/share/licenses/blosc/LZ4.txt
/usr/share/licenses/blosc/SNAPPY.txt
/usr/share/licenses/blosc/STDINT.txt
/usr/share/licenses/blosc/ZLIB.txt

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install blosc on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).

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Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install blosc on Fedora 36.

What is blosc

Blosc is a compression library designed to transmit data to the processor cache faster than the traditional non-compressed memory fetch. Compression ratios are not very high, but the decompression is very fast. Blosc is meant not only to reduce the size of large datasets on-disk or in-memory, but also to accelerate memory-bound computations.

We can use yum or dnf to install blosc on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install blosc.

Install blosc on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install blosc using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install blosc

Install blosc on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install blosc using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install blosc

How To Uninstall blosc on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove blosc

blosc Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/5b
/usr/lib/.build-id/5b/6c97ea6070070f56b670e515a3040464bc9e42
/usr/lib/libblosc.so.1
/usr/lib/libblosc.so.1.21.1
/usr/share/doc/blosc
/usr/share/doc/blosc/ANNOUNCE.rst
/usr/share/doc/blosc/README.md
/usr/share/doc/blosc/README_CHUNK_FORMAT.rst
/usr/share/doc/blosc/README_THREADED.rst
/usr/share/doc/blosc/RELEASE_NOTES.rst
/usr/share/licenses/blosc
/usr/share/licenses/blosc/BITSHUFFLE.txt
/usr/share/licenses/blosc/BLOSC.txt
/usr/share/licenses/blosc/FASTLZ.txt
/usr/share/licenses/blosc/LZ4.txt
/usr/share/licenses/blosc/SNAPPY.txt
/usr/share/licenses/blosc/STDINT.txt
/usr/share/licenses/blosc/ZLIB.txt

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install blosc on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).