How To Install libbrotli on Fedora 36
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libbrotli on Fedora 36.
What is libbrotli
Brotli is a generic-purpose lossless compression algorithm that compresses data using a combination of a modern variant of the LZ77 algorithm, Huffman coding and 2nd order context modeling, with a compression ratio comparable to the best currently available general-purpose compression methods. It is similar in speed with deflate but offers more dense compression.
We can use yum or dnf to install libbrotli on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libbrotli.
Install libbrotli 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 libbrotli using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install libbrotli
Install libbrotli 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 libbrotli using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install libbrotli
How To Uninstall libbrotli on Fedora 36
To uninstall only the libbrotli package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove libbrotli
libbrotli Package Contents on Fedora 36
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/18
/usr/lib/.build-id/18/86194e4cc0a3dbb26c5c37cb8ec980e3bf49dd
/usr/lib/.build-id/2b
/usr/lib/.build-id/2b/6d234b851d7a75196b6e8895a24830a14f2f9c
/usr/lib/.build-id/e2
/usr/lib/.build-id/e2/790c03a5c688b7e75e89676cdd2b5fcf247a6f
/usr/lib64/libbrotlicommon.so.1
/usr/lib64/libbrotlicommon.so.1.0.9
/usr/lib64/libbrotlidec.so.1
/usr/lib64/libbrotlidec.so.1.0.9
/usr/lib64/libbrotlienc.so.1
/usr/lib64/libbrotlienc.so.1.0.9
/usr/share/licenses/libbrotli
/usr/share/licenses/libbrotli/LICENSE
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libbrotli on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).
