How To Install qatzip on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install qatzip in Fedora 36. qatzip is Intel QuickAssist Technology (QAT) QATzip Library

Introduction

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

What is qatzip

QATzip is a user space library which builds on top of the Intel QuickAssist Technology user space library, to provide extended accelerated compression and decompression services by offloading the actual compression and decompression request(s) to the Intel Chipset Series. QATzip produces data using the standard gzip* format (RFC1952) with extended headers. The data can be decompressed with a compliant gzip* implementation. QATzip is designed to take full advantage of the performance provided by Intel QuickAssist Technology.

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

Install qatzip 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 qatzip using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install qatzip

Install qatzip 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 qatzip using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install qatzip

How To Uninstall qatzip on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove qatzip

qatzip Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/qzip
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/ec
/usr/lib/.build-id/ec/a0cdfa20ed7058d51b0b4cfde3ee6a5e24824c
/usr/share/licenses/qatzip
/usr/share/licenses/qatzip/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/qzip.1.gz

References

Summary

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