How To Install lzma-sdk on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install lzma-sdk on CentOS 7. lzma-sdk is SDK for lzma compression

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install lzma-sdk on CentOS 7.

What is lzma-sdk

LZMA SDK provides the documentation, samples, header files, libraries, and tools you need to develop applications that use LZMA compression. LZMA is default and general compression method of 7z format in 7-Zip compression program (www.7-zip.org). LZMA provides high compression ratio and very fast decompression. LZMA is an improved version of famous LZ77 compression algorithm. It was improved in way of maximum increasing of compression ratio, keeping high decompression speed and low memory requirements for decompressing.

We can use yum or dnf to install lzma-sdk on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install lzma-sdk.

Install lzma-sdk on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install lzma-sdk using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install lzma-sdk

Install lzma-sdk 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 lzma-sdk using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install lzma-sdk

How To Uninstall lzma-sdk on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the lzma-sdk package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove lzma-sdk

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install lzma-sdk on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.