How To Install xz-utils on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install xz-utils on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is xz-utils
xz-utils is:
XZ is the successor to the Lempel-Ziv/Markov-chain Algorithm compression format, which provides memory-hungry but powerful compression (often better than bzip2) and fast, easy decompression.
This package provides the command line tools for working with XZ compression, including xz, unxz, xzcat, xzgrep, and so on. They can also handle the older LZMA format, and if invoked via appropriate symlinks will emulate the behavior of the commands in the lzma package.
The XZ format is similar to the older LZMA format but includes some improvements for general use:
- ‘file’ magic for detecting XZ files;
- crc64 data integrity check;
- limited random-access reading support;
- improved support for multithreading (not used in xz-utils);
- support for flushing the encoder. Task: minimal, ubuntu-core Build-Essential: yes
Package: xz-utils Architecture: amd64 Version: 5.2.4-1 Multi-Arch: foreign Priority: important Section: utils Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Jonathan Nieder [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 348 Provides: lzma Depends: libc6 (>= 2.17), liblzma5 (>= 5.2.2) Conflicts: lzma (« 9.22-1), xz-lzma Breaks: lzip (« 1.8~rc2) Replaces: lzip (« 1.8~rc2), xz-lzma Filename: pool/main/x/xz-utils/xz-utils_5.2.4-1_amd64.deb Size: 82468 MD5sum: 83180f715199306653347739c8808aa0 SHA1: d01ba955c2a4c6bcdb1c4575cb171053dc197ebb SHA256: 23298ca419d2e34e54ee74c472de1102da9cabc66b59a470f1a8a5405e4a7c14 Homepage: https://tukaani.org/xz/ Description-en: XZ-format compression utilities XZ is the successor to the Lempel-Ziv/Markov-chain Algorithm compression format, which provides memory-hungry but powerful compression (often better than bzip2) and fast, easy decompression.
This package provides the command line tools for working with XZ compression, including xz, unxz, xzcat, xzgrep, and so on. They can also handle the older LZMA format, and if invoked via appropriate symlinks will emulate the behavior of the commands in the lzma package.
The XZ format is similar to the older LZMA format but includes some improvements for general use:
- ‘file’ magic for detecting XZ files;
- crc64 data integrity check;
- limited random-access reading support;
- improved support for multithreading (not used in xz-utils);
- support for flushing the encoder. Task: minimal, ubuntu-core Build-Essential: yes
There are three methods to install xz-utils 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 xz-utils Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install xz-utils using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install xz-utils
Install xz-utils Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install xz-utils using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install xz-utils
Install xz-utils 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 xz-utils using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install xz-utils
How To Uninstall xz-utils on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the xz-utils package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove xz-utils
Uninstall xz-utils And Its Dependencies
To uninstall xz-utils and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove xz-utils
Remove xz-utils Configurations and Data
To remove xz-utils configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge xz-utils
Remove xz-utils configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove xz-utils configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge xz-utils
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install xz-utils package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
