How To Install advancecomp on Ubuntu 20.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install advancecomp on Ubuntu 20.04. advancecomp is collection of recompression utilities

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install advancecomp on Ubuntu 20.04.

What is advancecomp

advancecomp is:

AdvanceCOMP contains recompression utilities for your .zip archives, .png images, .mng video clips and .gz files.

For recompression, 7-Zip (http://www.7-zip.com) is used, which generally gives 5-10% more compression than zLib.

There are three methods to install advancecomp on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install advancecomp Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install advancecomp using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install advancecomp

Install advancecomp Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install advancecomp using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install advancecomp

Install advancecomp 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 advancecomp using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install advancecomp

How To Uninstall advancecomp on Ubuntu 20.04

To uninstall only the advancecomp package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove advancecomp

Uninstall advancecomp And Its Dependencies

To uninstall advancecomp and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove advancecomp

Remove advancecomp Configurations and Data

To remove advancecomp configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge advancecomp

Remove advancecomp configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove advancecomp configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge advancecomp

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install advancecomp package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.