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I'm trying to install lrzip to compress big files as much as possible. Someone in this thread pointed out that lrzip is the best tool to do this, so I want to give it a shot and see if I can achieve the highest level of compression possible (BTW, I tried compressing files with gzip, zip, and xz, but the files are still too large for my purpose. E.g., the maximum compression I achieved with gzip was ~80% of the original size).

This response explains how to install the package using apt, but in my case I'm using Fedora 37 Workstation, so instead I tried to compile it from the source.

The first thing I do is type git clone -v https://github.com/ckolivas/lrzip.git; cd lrzip. No issues with that. But when I run ./autogen.sh I get the following error message:

configure: error: Could not find lz4 library - please install liblz4-dev

I tried to install this library but couldn't find it. I guess it only exists for Debian?

As I mentioned before, my main goal is to compress big files (several gigabytes big) as much as I can, so if lrzip is not the best way to do this, I'm open to try other things. Thanks!

Kusalananda
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The package in Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Alma Linux, Rocky Linux, is

lz4-devel

The command

yum install lz4-devel

will give you what you need.

Nasir Riley
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  • As a general comment, the debian world tends to name development packages something-dev whilst the rpm world uses something-devel. – icarus Nov 26 '22 at 22:05
  • @icarus That's true and I normally explain that when I give answers regarding development packages in the Fedora family versus the Debian family. – Nasir Riley Nov 26 '22 at 23:45