How To Install comprez on Ubuntu
Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )
2 minutes • 391 words
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install comprez on Ubuntu.
What is comprez
comprez is:
Comprez, aka ‘z’, is a simple, safe and convenient front-end for the compress(1), uncompress(1), gzip(1), bzip2(1), tar(1), zip(1) and unzip(1) utilities for compressing and uncompressing files and directories.
The basic idea is that you can just run “comprez SOMETHING” where SOMETHING is any file, directory, compressed file or compressed archive, and program will do the right thing in a standard way. Simple for novices and convenient for experts.
There are three methods to install comprez on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install comprez Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install comprez using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install comprez
Install comprez Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install comprez using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install comprez
Install comprez Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install comprez using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install comprez
How To Uninstall comprez on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the comprez package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove comprez
Uninstall comprez And Its Dependencies
To uninstall comprez and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove comprez
Remove comprez Configurations and Data
To remove comprez configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge comprez
Remove comprez configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove comprez configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge comprez
Dependencies
comprez have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install comprez package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.