How To Install rzip 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 rzip on Ubuntu.
What is rzip
rzip is:
rzip is a compression program able to take advantage of long distance redundancies in files, allowing greater compression ratios. rzip uses a history buffer of up to 900MB, while gzip uses 32KB and bzip2 uses 900KB. rzip cannot read from the standard input or write to the standard output.
This package provides rzip and runzip commands.
There are three methods to install rzip 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 rzip Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install rzip using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install rzip
Install rzip Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install rzip using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install rzip
Install rzip 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 rzip using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install rzip
How To Uninstall rzip on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the rzip package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove rzip
Uninstall rzip And Its Dependencies
To uninstall rzip and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove rzip
Remove rzip Configurations and Data
To remove rzip configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge rzip
Remove rzip configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove rzip configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge rzip
Dependencies
rzip have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install rzip package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.