Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install blosc-bench on CentOS 8.
What is blosc-bench
The blosc-bench package contains a benchmark suite which evaluates the performance of Blosc, and compares it with memcpy.
We can use yum or dnf to install blosc-bench on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install blosc-bench.
Install blosc-bench 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 blosc-bench using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install blosc-bench
Install blosc-bench 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 blosc-bench using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install blosc-bench
How To Uninstall blosc-bench on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the blosc-bench package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove blosc-bench
blosc-bench Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/blosc-bench
/usr/bin/blosc-plot-times
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/2d
/usr/lib/.build-id/2d/f0e7667cad84430403b022be1762116c5f1736
/usr/share/doc/blosc/bench/bench.c
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install blosc-bench on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.
