How To Install lrzip on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install lrzip on Kali Linux.

What is lrzip

lrzip is:

A compression program that can achieve very high compression ratios and speed when used with large files. It uses the combined compression algorithms of zpaq and lzma for maximum compression, lzo for maximum speed, and the long range redundancy reduction of rzip. It is designed to scale with increases with RAM size, improving compression further. A choice of either size or speed optimizations allows for either better compression than even lzma can provide, or better speed than gzip, but with bzip2 sized compression levels.

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

Install lrzip Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install lrzip

Install lrzip Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install lrzip

Install lrzip Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

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

sudo aptitude -y install lrzip

How To Uninstall lrzip on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove lrzip

Uninstall lrzip And Its Dependencies

To uninstall lrzip and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove lrzip

Remove lrzip Configurations and Data

To remove lrzip configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge lrzip

Remove lrzip configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge lrzip

Dependencies

lrzip have the following dependencies:

• libbz2-1.0
• libc6
• libgcc-s1
• liblz4-1
• liblzo2-2
• libstdc++6
• zlib1g

References

• lrzip website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install lrzip package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.