How To Install plzip on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is plzip

plzip 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.

Plzip is a massively parallel (multi-threaded) version of lzip using the lzip file format; the files produced by plzip are fully compatible with lzip.

Plzip is intended for faster compression/decompression of big files on multiprocessor machines, which makes it specially well suited for distribution of big software files and large scale data archiving. On files big enough, plzip can use hundreds of processors.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install plzip

Install plzip Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install plzip

Install plzip 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 plzip using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install plzip

How To Uninstall plzip on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove plzip

Uninstall plzip And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove plzip

Remove plzip Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge plzip

Remove plzip configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge plzip

Dependencies

plzip have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libgcc-s1
• liblz1
• libstdc++6

References

• plzip website

Summary

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