How To Install mscompress on Ubuntu
Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )
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Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mscompress on Ubuntu.
What is mscompress
mscompress is:
This package contains two programs:
- msexpand which decompresses files compressed by the Microsoft compress.exe utility (e.g. Win 3.x installation files);
- mscompress which compresses files using the LZ77 compression algorithm.
Files can be decompressed using Microsoft expand.exe or msexpand(1).
There are three methods to install mscompress 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 mscompress Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install mscompress using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install mscompress
Install mscompress Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install mscompress using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install mscompress
Install mscompress 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 mscompress using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install mscompress
How To Uninstall mscompress on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the mscompress package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove mscompress
Uninstall mscompress And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mscompress and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mscompress
Remove mscompress Configurations and Data
To remove mscompress configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge mscompress
Remove mscompress configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mscompress configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mscompress
Dependencies
mscompress have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mscompress package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.