How To Install rzip on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is rzip

rzip is:

rzip is a compression program able to take advantage of long distance redundancies in files, allowing greater compression ratios. rzip uses a history buffer of up to 900MB, while gzip uses 32KB and bzip2 uses 900KB. rzip cannot read from the standard input or write to the standard output.

This package provides rzip and runzip commands.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install rzip

Install rzip Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install rzip

Install rzip 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 rzip using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install rzip

How To Uninstall rzip on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove rzip

Uninstall rzip And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove rzip

Remove rzip Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge rzip

Remove rzip configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge rzip

Dependencies

rzip have the following dependencies:

• libbz2-1.0
• libc6

References

• rzip website

Summary

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