Month: February 2014

How to install fusecompress in CentOS 6

What is fusecompress?

FuseCompress provides a mountable Linux filesystem which transparently compresses its content. Files stored in this filesystem are compressed on the fly and FUSE allows to create a transparent interface between compressed files and user applications. FuseCompress supports different compression methods: LZO, gzip, bzip2, and LZMA.

How to install fusecompress in CentOS 6?

Follow the following to install fusecompress in CentOS 6

Install pre-tools

# yum groupinstall 'Development Tools'
# yum install boost boost-devel boost141-iostreams
# yum install fuse fuse-devel zlib-devel bzip2-devel lzo-devel
Download and Install fusecompress using git
# git clone git://github.com/tex/fusecompress.git
# cd fusecompress
# ./configure --with-z --with-bz2 --with-lzo2 --without-lzma --with-boost-serialization=boost_serialization --with-boost-iostreams=boost_iostreams --with-boost-program-options=boost_program_options --with-boost-file --with-boost-filesystem=boost_filesystem
# make
# make install