How To Install lzip on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install lzip on Rocky Linux 8. lzip is LZMA compressor with integrity checking

Introduction

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

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 Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install lzip.

Install lzip 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 lzip using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install lzip

Install lzip 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 lzip using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install lzip

How To Uninstall lzip on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove lzip

lzip Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/lzip
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/2a
/usr/lib/.build-id/2a/256bfa9a684baf1c6414611d7b3fc4c5fd198c
/usr/share/doc/lzip
/usr/share/doc/lzip/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/lzip/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/lzip/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/lzip/README
/usr/share/info/lzip.info.gz
/usr/share/licenses/lzip
/usr/share/licenses/lzip/COPYING.txt
/usr/share/man/man1/lzip.1.gz

References

Summary

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