How To Install blosc-bench on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install blosc-bench on CentOS 7. blosc-bench is Benchmark for the Blosc compressor

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install blosc-bench on CentOS 7.

What is blosc-bench

The blosc-bench package contains a benchmark suite which evaluates the performance of Blosc, and compares it with memcpy.

We can use yum or dnf to install blosc-bench on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install blosc-bench.

Install blosc-bench on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install blosc-bench using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install blosc-bench

Install blosc-bench on CentOS 7 Using dnf

If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first. Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache

After updating yum database, We can install blosc-bench using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install blosc-bench

How To Uninstall blosc-bench on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the blosc-bench package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove blosc-bench

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install blosc-bench on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.