How To Install lz4 on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install lz4 on Rocky Linux 8. lz4 is Extremely fast compression algorithm

Introduction

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

What is lz4

LZ4 is an extremely fast loss-less compression algorithm, providing compression speed at 400 MB/s per core, scalable with multi-core CPU. It also features an extremely fast decoder, with speed in multiple GB/s per core, typically reaching RAM speed limits on multi-core systems.

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

Install lz4 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 using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install lz4

Install lz4 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 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install lz4

How To Uninstall lz4 on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove lz4

lz4 Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/lz4
/usr/bin/lz4c
/usr/bin/lz4cat
/usr/bin/unlz4
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/75
/usr/lib/.build-id/75/53fe0c1cfa0fc884c88219fe06efc6f93bc2e3
/usr/share/doc/lz4
/usr/share/doc/lz4/NEWS
/usr/share/licenses/lz4
/usr/share/licenses/lz4/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/lz4.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/lz4c.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/lz4cat.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/unlz4.1.gz
/usr/bin/lz4
/usr/bin/lz4c
/usr/bin/lz4cat
/usr/bin/unlz4
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/f9
/usr/lib/.build-id/f9/d78dcc466557a4dad6af9c93d571fa1b3e70e0
/usr/share/doc/lz4
/usr/share/doc/lz4/NEWS
/usr/share/licenses/lz4
/usr/share/licenses/lz4/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/lz4.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/lz4c.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/lz4cat.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/unlz4.1.gz

References

Summary

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