How To Install pixz on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install pixz
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is pixz
pixz is:
Pixz is a multithreaded compressor/decompressor XZ fully compatible with those provided by xz-utils and busybox. By default it adds indexing information when compressing tar files that allows fast listing and partial-archive extraction.
There are three methods to install pixz
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 pixz Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install pixz
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install pixz
Install pixz Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install pixz
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install pixz
Install pixz 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 pixz
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install pixz
How To Uninstall pixz on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the pixz
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove pixz
Uninstall pixz And Its Dependencies
To uninstall pixz
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove pixz
Remove pixz Configurations and Data
To remove pixz
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge pixz
Remove pixz configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove pixz
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge pixz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install pixz
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.