Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install snappy on CentOS 8.
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 1.1.8 3.el8 i686 38 k snappy-1.1.8-3.el8.src.rpm baseos Fast compression and decompression library https BSD 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 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install snappy.
Install snappy on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install snappy using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install snappy
Install snappy on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install snappy using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install snappy
How To Uninstall snappy on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the snappy package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove snappy
snappy Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/5f
/usr/lib/.build-id/5f/d4dbc1de0aeae00f950c261fd9b62b70f123fa
/usr/lib/libsnappy.so.1
/usr/lib/libsnappy.so.1.1.8
/usr/share/doc/snappy
/usr/share/doc/snappy/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/snappy/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/snappy/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/snappy/README.md
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/ac
/usr/lib/.build-id/ac/2865c5a4e41f3870d96652b46ba0d7b4c1f0b9
/usr/lib64/libsnappy.so.1
/usr/lib64/libsnappy.so.1.1.8
/usr/share/doc/snappy
/usr/share/doc/snappy/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/snappy/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/snappy/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/snappy/README.md
References
- [snappy website](https://github.com/google/snappy
https://github.com/google/snappy)
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install snappy on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.
