How To Install minilzip on Ubuntu 22.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install minilzip on Ubuntu 22.04. minilzip is minified, lossless data compressor based on the LZMA algorithm

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install minilzip on Ubuntu 22.04.

What is minilzip

minilzip 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.

Minilzip is a minimal version of lzip using the lzip file format; the files produced by Minilzip are fully compatible with lzip.

Minilzip is intended as a test program for the lzlib library.

There are three methods to install minilzip on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install minilzip Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install minilzip

Install minilzip Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install minilzip

Install minilzip 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 minilzip using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install minilzip

How To Uninstall minilzip on Ubuntu 22.04

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

sudo apt-get remove minilzip

Uninstall minilzip And Its Dependencies

To uninstall minilzip and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove minilzip

Remove minilzip Configurations and Data

To remove minilzip configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge minilzip

Remove minilzip configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge minilzip

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install minilzip package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.