Information about the package, lzop, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The lzop package is designed for, Real-time file compressor.
Package Name:
lzop
Summary:
Real-time file compressor
URL:
Description:
lzop is a compression utility which is designed to be a companion to gzip. It is based on the LZO library and its main advantages over gzip are much higher compression and decompression speed at the cost of compression ratio. lzop was designed with reliability, speed, portibility and as a reasonable drop-in compatiblity to gzip.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
1.02
Release:
0.9.rc1.el6
Size:
50 k
Repository:
base
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2+
Control the lzop package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install lzop
This command will install lzop on the server.
yum remove lzop
This command will un-install lzop on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove lzop, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove lzop
This command will un-install lzop on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove lzop when using the -y flag.
yum update lzop
This command will update lzop to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove lzop, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update lzop
This command will update lzop to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove lzop when using the -y flag.
yum info lzop
This command will show you core information about the lzop package.
yum deplist lzop
This command will show you the dependencies for lzop. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update lzop
This command will check if there is an update waiting on lzop. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.