How To Install lz4-libs on Rocky Linux 8

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install lz4-libs on Rocky Linux 8.

What is lz4-libs

This package contains the libaries for lz4.

We can use yum or dnf to install lz4-libs on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install lz4-libs.

Install lz4-libs 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 lz4-libs using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install lz4-libs

Install lz4-libs 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 lz4-libs using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install lz4-libs

How To Uninstall lz4-libs on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the lz4-libs package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove lz4-libs

lz4-libs Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/34
/usr/lib/.build-id/34/39675e0dfbfcc8efcfc504e978bd16406c3eec
/usr/lib/liblz4.so.1
/usr/lib/liblz4.so.1.8.3
/usr/share/doc/lz4-libs
/usr/share/doc/lz4-libs/LICENSE
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/47
/usr/lib/.build-id/47/69cb0aed6c113b6d9ee711d271b071ef81b684
/usr/lib64/liblz4.so.1
/usr/lib64/liblz4.so.1.8.3
/usr/share/doc/lz4-libs
/usr/share/doc/lz4-libs/LICENSE
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/c7
/usr/lib/.build-id/c7/5d08a61b3e725925c4afe3f4eaccce49c64842
/usr/lib64/liblz4.so.1
/usr/lib64/liblz4.so.1.8.3
/usr/share/doc/lz4-libs
/usr/share/doc/lz4-libs/LICENSE
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/fe
/usr/lib/.build-id/fe/4f76c4fffb0c777227b7b768410e452f014259
/usr/lib/liblz4.so.1
/usr/lib/liblz4.so.1.8.3
/usr/share/doc/lz4-libs
/usr/share/doc/lz4-libs/LICENSE

References

• lz4-libs website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install lz4-libs on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.