How to Install and Uninstall bzip3 Package on openSuSE Tumbleweed

Last updated: May 20,2024

1. Install "bzip3" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install bzip3 on openSuSE Tumbleweed


    
        
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                sudo zypper refresh
            
                    
    
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                sudo zypper install
            
                        
                bzip3
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "bzip3" package

Here is a brief guide to show you how to uninstall bzip3 on openSuSE Tumbleweed:


    
        
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                sudo zypper remove
            
                        
                bzip3
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the bzip3 package on openSuSE Tumbleweed

Information for package bzip3:
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Repository : openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Oss
Name : bzip3
Version : 1.4.0-1.2
Arch : x86_64
Vendor : openSUSE
Installed Size : 43.7 KiB
Installed : No
Status : not installed
Source package : bzip3-1.4.0-1.2.src
Upstream URL : https://github.com/kspalaiologos/bzip3
Summary : Compressor with Burrows–Wheeler transform and PPM context modeling
Description :
A compressor featuring improved compression ratios and performance
over bzip2 thanks to a order-0 context mixing entropy coder, a
Burrows-Wheeler transform code making use of suffix arrays, a RLE
with Lempel Ziv+Prediction pass based on LZ77-style string matching
and PPM-style context modeling.
bzip3 1.4.0 can outperform zstd 1.5.5 on specific data sets, e.g.
15% better ratio for same compress time on source code, but has
time trouble with e.g. object files.