How To Install lzip on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install lzip
on CentOS 7.
What is lzip
Lzip compresses data using LZMA (Lempel-Ziv-Markov chain-Algorithm). It supports integrity checking using CRC (Cyclic Redundancy Check). To archive multiple files, tar can be used with lzip. Please note, that the lzip file format (.lz) is not compatible with the lzma file format (.lzma).
We can use yum
or dnf
to install lzip
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install lzip.
Install lzip on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install lzip
using yum
by running the following command:
Install lzip 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 lzip
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall lzip on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the lzip
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install lzip
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.