How To Install liblzf on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install liblzf on Rocky Linux 8. liblzf is Small data compression library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install liblzf on Rocky Linux 8.

What is liblzf

LibLZF is a very small data compression library. It consists of only two .c and two .h files and is very easy to incorporate into your own programs. The compression algorithm is very, very fast, yet still written in portable C.

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

Install liblzf 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 liblzf using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install liblzf

Install liblzf 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 liblzf using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install liblzf

How To Uninstall liblzf on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove liblzf

liblzf Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/lzf
/usr/bin/unlzf
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/a2
/usr/lib/.build-id/a2/85803c4ad81c730aaafa3f5fd4c40a42c4f850
/usr/lib/.build-id/f1
/usr/lib/.build-id/f1/fdc298fc57f462e4c09f5302a90af5da1875de
/usr/lib64/liblzf.so.1
/usr/lib64/liblzf.so.1.0.0
/usr/share/doc/liblzf
/usr/share/doc/liblzf/Changes
/usr/share/doc/liblzf/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/liblzf/README
/usr/share/doc/liblzf/cs
/usr/share/doc/liblzf/cs/CLZF.cs
/usr/share/doc/liblzf/cs/README

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install liblzf on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.