How To Install lz4 on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install lz4 on Kali Linux. lz4 is Fast LZ compression algorithm library - tool

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install lz4 on Kali Linux.

What is lz4

lz4 is:

LZ4 is a very fast lossless compression algorithm, providing compression speed at 400 MB/s per core, scalable with multi-cores CPU. It also features an extremely fast decoder, with speed in multiple GB/s per core, typically reaching RAM speed limits on multi-core systems.

This package contains files that is tool using liblz4.

There are three methods to install lz4 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 lz4 Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install lz4 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install lz4

Install lz4 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install lz4 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install lz4

Install lz4 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 lz4 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install lz4

How To Uninstall lz4 on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the lz4 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove lz4

Uninstall lz4 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall lz4 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove lz4

Remove lz4 Configurations and Data

To remove lz4 configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge lz4

Remove lz4 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove lz4 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge lz4

Dependencies

lz4 have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install lz4 package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.