How To Install lzop on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install lzop in Fedora 36. lzop is Real-time file compressor

Introduction

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

What is `lzop`

lzop is a compression utility which is designed to be a companion to gzip. It is based on the LZO data compression library and its main advantages over gzip are much higher compression and decompression speed at the cost of some compression ratio. The lzop compression utility was designed with the goals of reliability, speed, portability and with reasonable drop-in compatibility to gzip.

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

Install lzop 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 lzop using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install lzop

Install lzop 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 lzop using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install lzop

How To Uninstall lzop on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove lzop

lzop Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/lzop
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/02
/usr/lib/.build-id/02/05846963ece87905e00466c982fb45db87c206
/usr/share/doc/lzop
/usr/share/doc/lzop/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/lzop/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/lzop/README
/usr/share/doc/lzop/THANKS
/usr/share/licenses/lzop
/usr/share/licenses/lzop/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/lzop.1.gz

References

lzop website

Summary

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