How To Install lzo on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install lzo on CentOS 7. lzo is Data compression library with very fast (de)compression

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install lzo on CentOS 7.

What is lzo

LZO is a portable lossless data compression library written in ANSI C. It offers pretty fast compression and very fast decompression. Decompression requires no memory. In addition there are slower compression levels achieving a quite competitive compression ratio while still decompressing at this very high speed. LZO is a portable lossless data compression library written in ANSI C. It offers pretty fast compression and very fast decompression. Decompression requires no memory. In addition there are slower compression levels achieving a quite competitive compression ratio while still decompressing at this very high speed.

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

Install lzo on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install lzo using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install lzo

Install lzo 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 lzo using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install lzo

How To Uninstall lzo on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove lzo

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Summary

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