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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-xz" role="wrap">
9  <?dbhtml filename="xz.html"?>
10
11  <title>XZ-Utils-&xz-version;</title>
12
13  <indexterm zone="ch-system-xz">
14    <primary sortas="a-XZ-Utils">XZ-Utils</primary>
15  </indexterm>
16
17  <sect2 role="package">
18    <title/>
19
20    <para>The XZ-Utils package contains programs for compressing and
21    decompressing files. Compressing text files with <command>XZ-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 XZ-Utils</title>
29
30    <para os="a">Prepare XZ-Utils for compilation:</para>
31
32<screen os="b"><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr</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 <filename>xz</filename> binary, and several symlinks
43    that point to it, into the /bin directory:</para>
44
45<screen os="h"><userinput>mv -v /usr/bin/{xz,lzma,lzcat,unlzma,unxz,xzcat} /bin</userinput></screen>
46
47  </sect2>
48
49  <sect2 id="contents-xz" role="content">
50    <title>Contents of XZ-Utils</title>
51
52    <segmentedlist>
53      <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
54      <segtitle>Installed libraries</segtitle>
55
56      <seglistitem>
57        <seg>lzcat (link to xz), lzcmp (link to lzdiff), lzdiff, lzegrep (link to lzgrep),
58        lzfgrep (link to lzgrep), lzgrep, lzless (link to lzmore), lzma (link to xz),
59        lzmadec, lzmore, unlzma (link to lzma), unxz (link to xz), xz, xzdec, and
60        xzcat (link to xz).</seg>
61        <seg>/liblzma.a liblzma.la liblzma.so liblzma.so.0 liblzma.so.0.0.0</seg>
62      </seglistitem>
63    </segmentedlist>
64
65    <variablelist>
66      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
67      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
68      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
69
70      <varlistentry id="lzcat">
71        <term><command>lzcat</command></term>
72        <listitem>
73          <para>Decompresses to standard output</para>
74          <indexterm zone="ch-system-xz lzcat">
75            <primary sortas="b-lzcat">lzcat</primary>
76          </indexterm>
77        </listitem>
78      </varlistentry>
79
80      <varlistentry id="lzcmp">
81        <term><command>lzcmp</command></term>
82        <listitem>
83          <para>Compares lzma compressed files</para>
84          <indexterm zone="ch-system-xz lzcmp">
85            <primary sortas="b-lzcmp">lzcmp</primary>
86          </indexterm>
87        </listitem>
88      </varlistentry>
89
90      <varlistentry id="lzdiff">
91        <term><command>lzdiff</command></term>
92        <listitem>
93          <para>Compares lzma compressed files</para>
94          <indexterm zone="ch-system-xz lzdiff">
95            <primary sortas="b-lzdiff">lzdiff</primary>
96          </indexterm>
97        </listitem>
98      </varlistentry>
99
100      <varlistentry id="lzegrep">
101        <term><command>lzegrep</command></term>
102        <listitem>
103          <para>Runs <command>egrep</command> on lzma compressed files</para>
104          <indexterm zone="ch-system-xz lzegrep">
105            <primary sortas="b-lzegrep">lzegrep</primary>
106          </indexterm>
107        </listitem>
108      </varlistentry>
109
110      <varlistentry id="lzfgrep">
111        <term><command>lzfgrep</command></term>
112        <listitem>
113          <para>Runs <command>fgrep</command> on lzma compressed files</para>
114          <indexterm zone="ch-system-xz lzfgrep">
115            <primary sortas="b-lzfgrep">lzfgrep</primary>
116          </indexterm>
117        </listitem>
118      </varlistentry>
119
120      <varlistentry id="lzgrep">
121        <term><command>lzgrep</command></term>
122        <listitem>
123          <para>Runs <command>grep</command> on lzma compressed files</para>
124          <indexterm zone="ch-system-xz lzgrep">
125            <primary sortas="b-lzgrep">lzgrep</primary>
126          </indexterm>
127        </listitem>
128      </varlistentry>
129
130      <varlistentry id="lzless">
131        <term><command>lzless</command></term>
132        <listitem>
133          <para>Runs <command>less</command> on lzma files</para>
134          <indexterm zone="ch-system-xz lzless">
135            <primary sortas="b-lzless">lzless</primary>
136          </indexterm>
137        </listitem>
138      </varlistentry>
139
140      <varlistentry id="lzma">
141        <term><command>lzma</command></term>
142        <listitem>
143          <para>Compresses lzma files</para>
144          <indexterm zone="ch-system-xz lzma">
145            <primary sortas="b-lzma">lzma</primary>
146          </indexterm>
147        </listitem>
148      </varlistentry>
149
150      <varlistentry id="lzmadec">
151        <term><command>lzmadec</command></term>
152        <listitem>
153          <para>Decompresses lzma files</para>
154          <indexterm zone="ch-system-xz lzmadec">
155            <primary sortas="b-lzmadec">lzmadec</primary>
156          </indexterm>
157        </listitem>
158      </varlistentry>
159
160      <varlistentry id="lzmainfo">
161        <term><command>lzmainfo</command></term>
162        <listitem>
163          <para>Shows information about the lzma file.</para>
164          <indexterm zone="ch-system-xz lzmainfo">
165            <primary sortas="b-lzmainfo">lzmainfo</primary>
166          </indexterm>
167        </listitem>
168      </varlistentry>
169
170      <varlistentry id="lzmore">
171        <term><command>lzmore</command></term>
172        <listitem>
173          <para>Runs <command>more</command> on lzma files</para>
174          <indexterm zone="ch-system-xz lzmore">
175            <primary sortas="b-lzmore">lzmore</primary>
176          </indexterm>
177        </listitem>
178      </varlistentry>
179
180      <varlistentry id="unlzma">
181        <term><command>unlzma</command></term>
182        <listitem>
183          <para>Uncompresses lzma files</para>
184          <indexterm zone="ch-system-xz unlzma">
185            <primary sortas="b-unlzma">unlzma</primary>
186          </indexterm>
187        </listitem>
188      </varlistentry>
189
190    </variablelist>
191
192  </sect2>
193
194</sect1>
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