How To Install librdkafka on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install librdkafka
on CentOS 7.
What is librdkafka
Librdkafka is a C/C++ library implementation of the Apache Kafka protocol, containing both Producer and Consumer support. It was designed with message delivery reliability and high performance in mind, current figures exceed 800000 messages/second for the producer and 3 million messages/second for the consumer. Librdkafka is a C/C++ library implementation of the Apache Kafka protocol, containing both Producer and Consumer support. It was designed with message delivery reliability and high performance in mind, current figures exceed 800000 messages/second for the producer and 3 million messages/second for the consumer.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install librdkafka
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install librdkafka.
Install librdkafka on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install librdkafka
using yum
by running the following command:
Install librdkafka 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.
After updating yum database, We can install librdkafka
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall librdkafka on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the librdkafka
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install librdkafka
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.