How to Install and Uninstall xzdec Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: November 06,2024

1. Install "xzdec" package

This is a short guide on how to install xzdec on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                xzdec
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "xzdec" package

Learn how to uninstall xzdec on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                xzdec
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the xzdec package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: xzdec
Priority: optional
Section: universe/utils
Installed-Size: 247
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Jonathan Nieder
Architecture: amd64
Source: xz-utils
Version: 5.1.1alpha+20120614-2ubuntu2
Replaces: xz-lzma (<< 4.999.9beta+20091004-1)
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4)
Suggests: xz-utils
Breaks: xz-lzma (<< 4.999.9beta+20091004-1)
Filename: pool/universe/x/xz-utils/xzdec_5.1.1alpha+20120614-2ubuntu2_amd64.deb
Size: 49884
MD5sum: 658273f6f2730558757e6a6ee168d7e5
SHA1: 9e34018e6a367696b4d175677621f8eaf4084352
SHA256: ac859a858dd6cd6f34be1dd4dd6e916d7772dc4c5a062f7c2d5ac055e897b96e
Description-en: XZ-format compression utilities - tiny decompressors
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 xzdec and lzmadec utilities, which write
the decompressed version of a compressed file to standard output. The
binaries are very small, so they can be easily stored on small media
with some compressed files, and they are linked statically against
liblzma so they can be used on machines without a compatible version
of liblzma installed. However, they have:
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* no compression support;
* no support for writing to a file other than standard output;
* no translated messages;
* been optimized for size rather than speed.
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For a full-featured xzcat command without these limitations, use
the xz-utils package instead.
Description-md5: 30227ffce3f42144b3b624776f996bbf
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: http://tukaani.org/xz/
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu