How To Install qatlib on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install qatlib on CentOS 8.
What is qatlib
Intel QuickAssist Technology (Intel QAT) provides hardware acceleration for offloading security, authentication and compression services from the CPU, thus significantly increasing the performance and efficiency of standard platform solutions. Its services include symmetric encryption and authentication, asymmetric encryption, digital signatures, RSA, DH and ECC, and lossless data compression. This package provides user space libraries that allow access to Intel QuickAssist devices and expose the Intel QuickAssist APIs.
We can use yum or dnf to install qatlib on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install qatlib.
Install qatlib on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install qatlib using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install qatlib
Install qatlib on CentOS 8 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 qatlib using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install qatlib
How To Uninstall qatlib on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the qatlib package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove qatlib
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install qatlib on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.