How To Install mingw32-brotli on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install mingw32-brotli in Fedora 36. mingw32-brotli is MinGW port of Lossless compression algorithm

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install mingw32-brotli on Fedora 36.

What is `mingw32-brotli`

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 mingw32-brotli on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install mingw32-brotli.

Install mingw32-brotli 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 mingw32-brotli using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install mingw32-brotli

Install mingw32-brotli 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 mingw32-brotli using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install mingw32-brotli

How To Uninstall mingw32-brotli on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the mingw32-brotli package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove mingw32-brotli

mingw32-brotli Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/i686-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/bin/brotli.exe
/usr/i686-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/bin/libbrotlicommon.dll
/usr/i686-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/bin/libbrotlidec.dll
/usr/i686-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/bin/libbrotlienc.dll
/usr/i686-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/brotli
/usr/i686-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/brotli/decode.h
/usr/i686-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/brotli/encode.h
/usr/i686-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/brotli/port.h
/usr/i686-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/brotli/types.h
/usr/i686-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/lib/libbrotlicommon.dll.a
/usr/i686-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/lib/libbrotlidec.dll.a
/usr/i686-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/lib/libbrotlienc.dll.a
/usr/i686-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/lib/pkgconfig/libbrotlicommon.pc
/usr/i686-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/lib/pkgconfig/libbrotlidec.pc
/usr/i686-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/lib/pkgconfig/libbrotlienc.pc
/usr/share/licenses/mingw32-brotli
/usr/share/licenses/mingw32-brotli/LICENSE

References

mingw32-brotli website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install mingw32-brotli on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).