How to Install and Uninstall xz-utils Package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Last updated: November 26,2024

1. Install "xz-utils" package

Learn how to install xz-utils on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                xz-utils
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "xz-utils" package

Please follow the guidance below to uninstall xz-utils on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                xz-utils
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the xz-utils package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Package: xz-utils
Architecture: amd64
Version: 5.2.4-1ubuntu1
Multi-Arch: foreign
Priority: important
Section: utils
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Jonathan Nieder
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 348
Provides: lzma
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.17), liblzma5 (>= 5.2.2)
Conflicts: lzma (<< 9.22-1), xz-lzma
Breaks: lzip (<< 1.8~rc2)
Replaces: lzip (<< 1.8~rc2), xz-lzma
Filename: pool/main/x/xz-utils/xz-utils_5.2.4-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb
Size: 82508
MD5sum: ccf36aab1f4dd1220f7fc46591a0b330
SHA1: 94455651c266dbc95316a5d3cf2d269174396a9c
SHA256: 2e90673f8f84778023890974b77ec429e96b9929b4ca0d439a97b2af8dc3ca64
SHA512: 6ae0f5be88f13a932c959217b92042f30edad655e8bebe09f1d8699597c672866c86427aefb290649c9bf3c864cc9ee9d290483ad9390948a4f1cffc21423726
Homepage: https://tukaani.org/xz/
Description-en: XZ-format compression utilities
XZ is the successor to the Lempel-Ziv/Markov-chain Algorithm
compression format, which provides memory-hungry but powerful
compression (often better than bzip2) and fast, easy decompression.
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This package provides the command line tools for working with XZ
compression, including xz, unxz, xzcat, xzgrep, and so on. They can
also handle the older LZMA format, and if invoked via appropriate
symlinks will emulate the behavior of the commands in the lzma
package.
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The XZ format is similar to the older LZMA format but includes some
improvements for general use:
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* 'file' magic for detecting XZ files;
* crc64 data integrity check;
* limited random-access reading support;
* improved support for multithreading (not used in xz-utils);
* support for flushing the encoder.
Description-md5: ea97a558c8575aebbed2c11cbd20e0f2
Task: minimal
Build-Essential: yes