How To Install minilzip on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install minilzip on Kali Linux. minilzip is minified, lossless data compressor based on the LZMA algorithm

Introduction

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

What is minilzip

minilzip is:

Lzip is a lossless data compressor based on the LZMA algorithm, with very safe integrity checking and a user interface similar to the one of gzip or bzip2. Lzip decompresses almost as fast as gzip and compresses better than bzip2, which makes it well suited for software distribution and data archiving.

Minilzip is a minimal version of lzip using the lzip file format; the files produced by Minilzip are fully compatible with lzip.

Minilzip is intended as a test program for the lzlib library.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install minilzip

Install minilzip Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install minilzip

Install minilzip 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 minilzip using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install minilzip

How To Uninstall minilzip on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove minilzip

Uninstall minilzip And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove minilzip

Remove minilzip Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge minilzip

Remove minilzip configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge minilzip

Dependencies

minilzip have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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