How To Install miniz on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install miniz on CentOS 7. miniz is Compression library implementing the zlib and Deflate

Introduction

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

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 CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install miniz.

Install miniz on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

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

sudo yum -y install miniz

Install miniz 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 miniz using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install miniz

How To Uninstall miniz on CentOS 7

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 CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.