How To Install qatlib on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install qatlib in Fedora 36. qatlib is Intel QuickAssist user space library

Introduction

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

What is `qatlib`

Intel QuickAssist Technology (Intel QAT) provides hardware acceleration for offloading security, authentication and compression services from the CPU, thus significantly increasing the performance and efficiency of standard platform solutions. Its services include symmetric encryption and authentication, asymmetric encryption, digital signatures, RSA, DH and ECC, and lossless data compression. This package provides user space libraries that allow access to Intel QuickAssist devices and expose the Intel QuickAssist APIs.

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

Install qatlib 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 qatlib using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install qatlib

Install qatlib 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 qatlib using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install qatlib

How To Uninstall qatlib on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove qatlib

qatlib Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/85
/usr/lib/.build-id/85/c31ec8cd1289647458343352b34b462e2ebc5a
/usr/lib/.build-id/cb
/usr/lib/.build-id/cb/d670a319bddb821357d3093531de6ccd778a50
/usr/lib/.build-id/f1
/usr/lib/.build-id/f1/f5c5ef7dd717046947dc58e0850932c924eafc
/usr/lib/systemd/system/qat.service
/usr/lib64/libqat.so.2
/usr/lib64/libqat.so.2.0.0
/usr/lib64/libusdm.so.0
/usr/lib64/libusdm.so.0.0.1
/usr/sbin/qat_init.sh
/usr/sbin/qatmgr
/usr/share/doc/qatlib
/usr/share/doc/qatlib/INSTALL
/usr/share/doc/qatlib/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/qatlib
/usr/share/licenses/qatlib/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man8/qat_init.sh.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/qatmgr.8.gz

References

qatlib website

Summary

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