How To Install snappy on Fedora 36
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install snappy on Fedora 36.
What is snappy
Snappy is a compression/decompression library. It does not aim for maximum compression, or compatibility with any other compression library; instead, it aims for very high speeds and reasonable compression. For instance, compared to the fastest mode of zlib, Snappy is an order of magnitude faster for most inputs, but the resulting compressed files are anywhere from 20% to 100% bigger.
We can use yum or dnf to install snappy on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install snappy.
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Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install snappy on Fedora 36.
What is snappy
Snappy is a compression/decompression library. It does not aim for maximum compression, or compatibility with any other compression library; instead, it aims for very high speeds and reasonable compression. For instance, compared to the fastest mode of zlib, Snappy is an order of magnitude faster for most inputs, but the resulting compressed files are anywhere from 20% to 100% bigger.
We can use yum or dnf to install snappy on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install snappy.
Install snappy on Fedora 36 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
Install snappy on Fedora 36 Using dnf
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install snappy using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
```bash
sudo dnf -y install snappy
After updating yum database, We can install `snappy` using `dnf` by running the following command:
## Install snappy on Fedora 36 Using yum
```bash
Update yum database with `yum` using the following command.
sudo dnf -y install snappy
sudo yum makecache --refresh
## Install snappy on Fedora 36 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install snappy using yum by running the following command:
```bash
sudo yum makecache --refresh
sudo yum -y install snappy
How To Uninstall snappy on Fedora 36
To uninstall only the snappy package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove snappy
snappy Package Contents on Fedora 36
After updating yum database, We can install snappy using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install snappy
How To Uninstall snappy on Fedora 36
To uninstall only the snappy package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove snappy
snappy Package Contents on Fedora 36
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/ef
/usr/lib/.build-id/ef/5ffd6e8f39a7552d886108497c62d34b8db574
/usr/lib/libsnappy.so.1
/usr/lib/libsnappy.so.1.1.9
/usr/share/doc/snappy
/usr/share/doc/snappy/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/snappy/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/snappy/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/snappy
/usr/share/licenses/snappy/COPYING
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install snappy on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).
/usr/lib/.build-id /usr/lib/.build-id/99 /usr/lib/.build-id/99/9ca1f11c8aa542954ecd3466c120d0fd672d24 /usr/lib64/libsnappy.so.1 /usr/lib64/libsnappy.so.1.1.9 /usr/share/doc/snappy /usr/share/doc/snappy/AUTHORS /usr/share/doc/snappy/NEWS /usr/share/doc/snappy/README.md /usr/share/licenses/snappy /usr/share/licenses/snappy/COPYING
## References
* [snappy website](https://github.com/google/snappy)
## Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install `snappy` on [Fedora 36](/fedora/36/) using [yum](/fedora/36/yum/) and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).