How to Install and Uninstall xz-utils Package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Last updated: May 12,2024

1. Install "xz-utils" package

This is a short guide on how to install xz-utils on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)


    
        
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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

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to uninstall xz-utils on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri):


    
        
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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 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Package: xz-utils
Architecture: amd64
Version: 5.2.5-2
Multi-Arch: foreign
Priority: standard
Section: utils
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Jonathan Nieder
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 372
Provides: lzma
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.33), 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_5.2.5-2_amd64.deb
Size: 81980
MD5sum: 7d7551e468959287fd2b7ef830a3db9d
SHA1: b790b990c23ee4213d3583d777806269ab23f8de
SHA256: 089950db3626169f2ec3301bb75cd80902b7a34b35eee5c9bbe22a673cdbd76b
SHA512: 1a841f3cb14773664468fb35d346142cbd468b97c1a75e4aed0e39f6ae701ca51111a03f5252249214ac012895a609da998cc0150cf891b31ae3da97ef7a431a
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: standard, server-minimal
Build-Essential: yes