How To Install fstrm on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install fstrm on CentOS 7. fstrm is Frame Streams implementation in C

Introduction

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

What is fstrm

Frame Streams is a light weight, binary clean protocol that allows for the transport of arbitrarily encoded data payload sequences with minimal framing overhead – just four bytes per data frame. Frame Streams does not specify an encoding format for data frames and can be used with any data serialization format that produces byte sequences, such as Protocol Buffers, XML, JSON, MessagePack, YAML, etc.

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

Install fstrm on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

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

sudo yum -y install fstrm

Install fstrm 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 fstrm using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install fstrm

How To Uninstall fstrm on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove fstrm

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Summary

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