How To Install tarlz on Debian 10

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install tarlz on Debian 10.

What is tarlz

tarlz is:

Tarlz is a combined implementation of the tar archiver and the lzip compressor.

By default it creates, lists and extracts archives with lzip on a per file basis. Each tar member is compressed in its own lzip member, as well as the end-of-file blocks. This method adds an indexed lzip layer on top of the tar archive, making it possible to decode the archive safely in parallel. The resulting multimember tar.lz archive is fully backward compatible with standard tar tools like GNU tar, which treat it like any other tar.lz archive.

There are three methods to install tarlz on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install tarlz Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install tarlz

Install tarlz Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install tarlz

Install tarlz 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

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

sudo aptitude -y install tarlz

How To Uninstall tarlz on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove tarlz

Uninstall tarlz And Its Dependencies

To uninstall tarlz and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove tarlz

Remove tarlz Configurations and Data

To remove tarlz configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge tarlz

Remove tarlz configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tarlz

Dependencies

tarlz have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libgcc1

References

• tarlz website
• tarlz on packages.debian.org

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install tarlz package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.