How To Install blosc-bench on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install blosc-bench in Fedora 36. blosc-bench is Benchmark for the Blosc compressor

Introduction

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

What is `blosc-bench`

The blosc-bench package contains a benchmark suite which evaluates the performance of Blosc, and compares it with memcpy.

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

Install blosc-bench 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-bench using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install blosc-bench

Install blosc-bench 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-bench using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install blosc-bench

How To Uninstall blosc-bench on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove blosc-bench

blosc-bench Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/blosc-bench
/usr/bin/blosc-plot-times
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/57
/usr/lib/.build-id/57/bd6c21731f0181ed9fc75d76f13896982f08c1
/usr/share/doc/blosc/bench/bench.c

References

blosc-bench website

Summary

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