How To Install fastlz on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fastlz on Rocky Linux 8.
What is fastlz
FastLZ is a lossless data compression library designed for real-time compression and decompression. It favors speed over compression ratio. Decompression requires no memory. Decompression algorithm is very simple, and thus extremely fast.
We can use yum or dnf to install fastlz on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install fastlz.
Install fastlz on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install fastlz using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install fastlz
Install fastlz on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install fastlz using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install fastlz
How To Uninstall fastlz on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the fastlz package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove fastlz
fastlz Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/8a
/usr/lib/.build-id/8a/55f7f22d0f71d3021874e3255a33b2bf7c16c0
/usr/lib64/libfastlz.so.0
/usr/share/licenses/fastlz
/usr/share/licenses/fastlz/LICENSE
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fastlz on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.