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Brotli is a new compression method with a better compression ratio than Gzip. Its source code is publicly hosted on Github. This guide will show you the commands you need to run and build Brotli from source code on CentOS 7.
Before you begin
Check the CentOS version.
cat /etc/centos-release
# CentOS Linux release 7.6.1810 (Core)
Create a new non-root user account with sudo
access and switch to it.
useradd -c "John Doe" johndoe && passwd johndoe
usermod -aG wheel johndoe
su - johndoe
NOTE: Replace johndoe
with your username.
Set up the timezone.
timedatectl list-timezones
sudo timedatectl set-timezone 'Region/City'
Ensure that your system is up to date.
sudo yum check-update; sudo yum update -y
Build Brotli
Install build tools and required packages.
sudo yum install -y gcc make bc sed autoconf automake libtool git
Clone the Brotli repository.
git clone https://github.com/google/brotli.git
Navigate to the Brotli source directory.
cd brotli
Create a manual page for Brotli commands.
sudo cp ~/brotli/docs/brotli.1 /usr/share/man/man1 && sudo gzip /usr/share/man/man1/brotli.1
Check the manual page.
man brotli
To generate Autotools’ configure file, first run the ./bootstrap
command.
./bootstrap
After the command above, you will have access to the usual C program build steps: configure
, make
and make install
.
For help, run the ./configure --help
command.
Now, build Brotli.
./configure --prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/bin --sbindir=/usr/sbin --libexecdir=/usr/lib64/brotli --libdir=/usr/lib64/brotli --datarootdir=/usr/share --mandir=/usr/share/man/man1 --docdir=/usr/share/doc
make
sudo make install
After the successful build process, you can check the version.
brotli --version
# brotli 1.0.7
That’s it. You have successfully built Brotli from source code. You can now compress and decompress your files with Brotli compression format on your server.
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