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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
3  "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
4  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
5  %general-entities;
6]>
7
8<sect1 id="ch-system-lzma" role="wrap">
9  <?dbhtml filename="lzma.html"?>
10
11  <title>LZMA-Utils-&lzma-version;</title>
12
13  <indexterm zone="ch-system-lzma">
14    <primary sortas="a-LZMA-Utils">LZMA-Utils</primary>
15  </indexterm>
16
17  <sect2 role="package">
18    <title/>
19
20    <para>The LZMA-Utils package contains programs for compressing and
21    decompressing files. Compressing text files with <command>LZMA-Utils</command>
22    yields a much better compression percentage than with the traditional
23    <command>gzip</command>.</para>
24
25  </sect2>
26
27  <sect2 role="installation">
28    <title>Installation of LZMA-Utils</title>
29
30    <para os="a">Prepare LZMA-Utils for compilation:</para>
31
32<screen os="b"><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr libdir=/lib</userinput></screen>
33
34    <para os="c">Compile the package:</para>
35
36<screen os="d"><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
37
38    <para os="e">Install the programs:</para>
39
40<screen os="f"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
41
42    <para os="g">Move the LZMA-Utils static libraries to the proper location:</para>
43
44<screen os="h"><userinput>mv -v /lib/liblzmadec.{a,la} /usr/lib</userinput></screen>
45
46    <para os="i">Create a symlink for the shared library:</para>
47
48<screen os="j"><userinput>ln -svf ../../lib/liblzmadec.so.0 /usr/lib/liblzmadec.so</userinput></screen>
49
50    <para os="k">Move the <command>lzma</command> binary, and a couple
51    symlinks to it, to <filename class="directory">/bin</filename> to be
52    available like other compressing utilities:</para>
53
54<screen os="l"><userinput>mv -v /usr/bin/{lzma,lzcat,unlzma} /bin</userinput></screen>
55
56  </sect2>
57
58  <sect2 id="contents-lzma" role="content">
59    <title>Contents of LZMA-Utils</title>
60
61    <segmentedlist>
62      <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
63      <segtitle>Installed libraries</segtitle>
64
65      <seglistitem>
66        <seg>lzma, lzcat (link to lzma), lzmadec, lzmainfo,
67        lzmore, and unlzma (link to lzma).</seg>
68        <seg>liblzmadec.a, liblzmadec.la, liblzmadec.so, liblzmadec.so.0, and
69         liblzmadec.so.0.0.0</seg>
70      </seglistitem>
71    </segmentedlist>
72
73    <variablelist>
74      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
75      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
76      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
77
78      <varlistentry id="lzma">
79        <term><command>lzma</command></term>
80        <listitem>
81          <para>Compresses lzma files</para>
82          <indexterm zone="ch-system-lzma bunzip2">
83            <primary sortas="b-lzma">lzma</primary>
84          </indexterm>
85        </listitem>
86      </varlistentry>
87
88      <varlistentry id="lzcat">
89        <term><command>lzcat</command></term>
90        <listitem>
91          <para>Decompresses to standard output</para>
92          <indexterm zone="ch-system-lzma lzcat">
93            <primary sortas="b-lzcat">lzcat</primary>
94          </indexterm>
95        </listitem>
96      </varlistentry>
97
98      <varlistentry id="lzmadec">
99        <term><command>lzmadec</command></term>
100        <listitem>
101          <para>Decompresses lzma files</para>
102          <indexterm zone="ch-system-lzma lzmadec">
103            <primary sortas="b-lzmadec">lzmaadec</primary>
104          </indexterm>
105        </listitem>
106      </varlistentry>
107
108      <varlistentry id="lzmainfo">
109        <term><command>lzmainfo</command></term>
110        <listitem>
111          <para>Shows information about the lzma file.</para>
112          <indexterm zone="ch-system-lzma lzmainfo">
113            <primary sortas="b-lzmainfo">lzmainfo</primary>
114          </indexterm>
115        </listitem>
116      </varlistentry>
117
118      <varlistentry id="lzmaless">
119        <term><command>lzmaless</command></term>
120        <listitem>
121          <para>Runs <command>less</command> on lzma files</para>
122          <indexterm zone="ch-system-lzma lzmaless">
123            <primary sortas="b-lzmaless">lzmaless</primary>
124          </indexterm>
125        </listitem>
126      </varlistentry>
127
128      <varlistentry id="lzmamore">
129        <term><command>lzmamore</command></term>
130        <listitem>
131          <para>Runs <command>more</command> on lzma files</para>
132          <indexterm zone="ch-system-lzma lzmamore">
133            <primary sortas="b-lzmamore">lzmamore</primary>
134          </indexterm>
135        </listitem>
136      </varlistentry>
137
138      <varlistentry id="liblzmadec">
139        <term><filename class="libraryfile">liblzmadec*</filename></term>
140        <listitem>
141          <para>The library implements the Improved and optimized
142          version of LZ77 algorithm</para>
143          <indexterm zone="ch-system-lzma liblzmadec">
144            <primary sortas="c-liblzmadec*">liblzmadec*</primary>
145          </indexterm>
146        </listitem>
147      </varlistentry>
148
149    </variablelist>
150
151  </sect2>
152
153</sect1>
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