How To Install brotli on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install brotli on CentOS 7. brotli is Lossless compression algorithm

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install brotli on CentOS 7.

What is brotli

Brotli is a generic-purpose lossless compression algorithm that compresses data using a combination of a modern variant of the LZ77 algorithm, Huffman coding and 2nd order context modeling, with a compression ratio comparable to the best currently available general-purpose compression methods. It is similar in speed with deflate but offers more dense compression.

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

Install brotli on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install brotli using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install brotli

Install brotli 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 brotli using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install brotli

How To Uninstall brotli on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove brotli

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Summary

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