How To Install hyperscan on CentOS 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install hyperscan on CentOS 8. hyperscan is High-performance regular expression matching library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install hyperscan on CentOS 8.

What is hyperscan

Hyperscan is a high-performance multiple regex matching library. It follows the regular expression syntax of the commonly-used libpcre library, but is a standalone library with its own C API. Hyperscan uses hybrid automata techniques to allow simultaneous matching of large numbers (up to tens of thousands) of regular expressions and for the matching of regular expressions across streams of data. Hyperscan is typically used in a DPI library stack.

We can use yum or dnf to install hyperscan on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install hyperscan.

Install hyperscan on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

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

sudo yum -y install hyperscan

Install hyperscan on CentOS 8 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 hyperscan using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install hyperscan

How To Uninstall hyperscan on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove hyperscan

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install hyperscan on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.