How To Install plzip on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install plzip on Ubuntu 22.04.
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 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 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 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 plzip using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install plzip
How To Uninstall plzip on Ubuntu 22.04
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 Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove plzip
Remove plzip Configurations and Data
To remove plzip configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 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
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install plzip package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
