How To Install zswap-cli on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install zswap-cli in Fedora 36. zswap-cli is Command-line tool to control zswap options

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install zswap-cli on Fedora 36.

What is `zswap-cli`

Zswap-cli is a command-line tool to control zswap Linux kernel module options. Zswap is a compressed cache for swap pages. It takes pages that are in the process of being swapped out to disk and tries to compress them into a RAM-based memory pool with dynamic allocation. It trades CPU cycles for a significant performance boost since reading from a compressed cache is much faster than reading from a swap device.

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

Install zswap-cli 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 zswap-cli using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install zswap-cli

Install zswap-cli 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 zswap-cli using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install zswap-cli

How To Uninstall zswap-cli on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the zswap-cli package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove zswap-cli

zswap-cli Package Contents on Fedora 36

/etc/zswap-cli
/etc/zswap-cli/zswap-cli.conf
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/88
/usr/lib/.build-id/88/0c6ecb8d6c5cbce04fc45498c74a8682bcdb38
/usr/lib/systemd/system/zswap-cli.service
/usr/sbin/zswap-cli
/usr/share/doc/zswap-cli
/usr/share/doc/zswap-cli/README.md
/usr/share/doc/zswap-cli/configuration-files.md
/usr/share/doc/zswap-cli/environment-options.md
/usr/share/doc/zswap-cli/installation.md
/usr/share/doc/zswap-cli/using-application.md
/usr/share/licenses/zswap-cli
/usr/share/licenses/zswap-cli/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/zswap-cli.1.gz

References

zswap-cli website

Summary

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