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.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install librdkafka using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install librdkafka
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.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install librdkafka using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install librdkafka
How To Uninstall librdkafka on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the librdkafka package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove librdkafka
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install librdkafka on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
