%general-entities; ]> XZ-Utils-&xz-version; XZ-Utils <para>The XZ-Utils package contains programs for compressing and decompressing files. Compressing text files with <command>XZ-Utils</command> yields a much better compression percentage than with the traditional <command>gzip</command>.</para> </sect2> <sect2 role="installation"> <title>Installation of XZ-Utils Prepare XZ-Utils for compilation: ./configure --prefix=/usr Compile the package: make Install the programs: make install Move the xz binary, and several symlinks that point to it, into the /bin directory: mv -v /usr/bin/{xz,lzma,lzcat,unlzma,unxz,xzcat} /bin Contents of XZ-Utils Installed programs Installed libraries lzcat (link to xz), lzcmp (link to lzdiff), lzdiff, lzegrep (link to lzgrep), lzfgrep (link to lzgrep), lzgrep, lzless (link to lzmore), lzma (link to xz), lzmadec, lzmore, unlzma (link to lzma), unxz (link to xz), xz, xzdec, and xzcat (link to xz). /liblzma.a liblzma.la liblzma.so liblzma.so.0 liblzma.so.0.0.0 Short Descriptions lzcat Decompresses to standard output lzcat lzcmp Compares lzma compressed files lzcmp lzdiff Compares lzma compressed files lzdiff lzegrep Runs egrep on lzma compressed files lzegrep lzfgrep Runs fgrep on lzma compressed files lzfgrep lzgrep Runs grep on lzma compressed files lzgrep lzless Runs less on lzma files lzless lzma Compresses lzma files lzma lzmadec Decompresses lzma files lzmadec lzmainfo Shows information about the lzma file. lzmainfo lzmore Runs more on lzma files lzmore unlzma Uncompresses lzma files unlzma