How To Install lzop on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install lzop
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is lzop
lzop is:
lzop is a compressor similar to gzip. Its main advantages over gzip are much higher compression and decompression speed. lzop was designed with the following goals in mind:
- reliability
- speed (both compression and decompression)
- reasonable drop-in compatibility with gzip
- portability
There are three methods to install lzop
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 lzop Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install lzop
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install lzop
Install lzop Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install lzop
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install lzop
Install lzop 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 lzop
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install lzop
How To Uninstall lzop on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the lzop
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove lzop
Uninstall lzop And Its Dependencies
To uninstall lzop
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove lzop
Remove lzop Configurations and Data
To remove lzop
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge lzop
Remove lzop configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove lzop
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge lzop
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install lzop
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.