How To Install pbzip2 on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install pbzip2 on Rocky Linux 8. pbzip2 is Parallel implementation of bzip2

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install pbzip2 on Rocky Linux 8.

What is `pbzip2`

PBZIP2 is a parallel implementation of the bzip2 block-sorting file compressor that uses pthreads and achieves near-linear speedup on SMP machines. The output of this version is fully compatible with bzip2 v1.0.2 or newer (ie decompressed with bzip2).

We can use yum or dnf to install pbzip2 on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install pbzip2.

Install pbzip2 on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install pbzip2 using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install pbzip2

Install pbzip2 on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install pbzip2 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install pbzip2

How To Uninstall pbzip2 on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the pbzip2 package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove pbzip2

pbzip2 Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/pbunzip2
/usr/bin/pbzcat
/usr/bin/pbzip2
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/5d
/usr/lib/.build-id/5d/54dbbd8c8820adcfa80757098ac9105ce5e53a
/usr/share/doc/pbzip2
/usr/share/doc/pbzip2/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/pbzip2/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/pbzip2/README
/usr/share/licenses/pbzip2
/usr/share/licenses/pbzip2/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/pbzip2.1.gz

References

pbzip2 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install pbzip2 on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.