How To Install miniz on AlmaLinux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install miniz on AlmaLinux 8.
What is miniz
Miniz is a lossless, high performance data compression library in a single source file that implements the zlib (RFC 1950) and Deflate (RFC 1951) compressed data format specification standards. It supports the most commonly used functions exported by the zlib library, but is a completely independent implementation so zlib’s licensing requirements do not apply. It also contains simple to use functions for writing PNG format image files and reading/writing/appending ZIP format archives. Miniz’s compression speed has been tuned to be comparable to zlib’s, and it also has a specialized real-time compressor function designed to compare well against fastlz/minilzo.
We can use yum or dnf to install miniz on AlmaLinux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install miniz.
Install miniz on AlmaLinux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install miniz using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install miniz
Install miniz on AlmaLinux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install miniz using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install miniz
How To Uninstall miniz on AlmaLinux 8
To uninstall only the miniz package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove miniz
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install miniz on AlmaLinux 8 using yum and dnf.