How To Install blosc on AlmaLinux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install blosc on AlmaLinux 8.
What is blosc
Blosc is a compression library designed to transmit data to the processor cache faster than the traditional non-compressed memory fetch. Compression ratios are not very high, but the decompression is very fast. Blosc is meant not only to reduce the size of large datasets on-disk or in-memory, but also to accelerate memory-bound computations.
We can use yum or dnf to install blosc on AlmaLinux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install blosc.
Install blosc on AlmaLinux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install blosc using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install blosc
Install blosc on AlmaLinux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install blosc using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install blosc
How To Uninstall blosc on AlmaLinux 8
To uninstall only the blosc package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove blosc
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install blosc on AlmaLinux 8 using yum and dnf.
