How To Install snappy on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install snappy on CentOS 7.
What is snappy
Snappy is a compression/decompression library. It does not aim for maximum compression, or compatibility with any other compression library; instead, it aims for very high speeds and reasonable compression. For instance, compared to the fastest mode of zlib, Snappy is an order of magnitude faster for most inputs, but the resulting compressed files are anywhere from 20% to 100% bigger. Snappy is a compression/decompression library. It does not aim for maximum compression, or compatibility with any other compression library; instead, it aims for very high speeds and reasonable compression. For instance, compared to the fastest mode of zlib, Snappy is an order of magnitude faster for most inputs, but the resulting compressed files are anywhere from 20% to 100% bigger.
We can use yum or dnf to install snappy on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install snappy.
Install snappy on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install snappy using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install snappy
Install snappy 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 snappy using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install snappy
How To Uninstall snappy on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the snappy package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove snappy
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install snappy on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
