How To Install lzop on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install lzop on CentOS 7.
What is lzop
lzop is a compression utility which is designed to be a companion to gzip. It is based on the LZO data compression library and its main advantages over gzip are much higher compression and decompression speed at the cost of some compression ratio. The lzop compression utility was designed with the goals of reliability, speed, portability and with reasonable drop-in compatibility to gzip.
We can use yum or dnf to install lzop on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install lzop.
Install lzop on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install lzop using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install lzop
Install lzop 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 lzop using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install lzop
How To Uninstall lzop on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the lzop package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove lzop
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install lzop on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.