bzip2: High-quality data compressor¶

Description¶

bzip2 is a freely available, patent free, high-quality data compressor.

It typically compresses files to within 10% to 15% of the best available techniques (the PPM family of statistical compressors), whilst being around twice as fast at compression and six times faster at decompression.

License¶

BSD-style

Upstream Contact¶

Website http://bzip.org/
Author: Julian Seward <julian@bzip.org>

Special Update/Build Instructions¶

This package must not be bzip2 compressed, so create it using

tar c bzip2-1.0.6 | gzip --best >bzip2-1.0.6.spkg

The build system has been autotoolized based on a patch by the Suse folk at http://ftp.uni-kl.de/pub/linux/suse/people/sbrabec/bzip2/for_downstream/bzip2-1.0.6-autoconfiscated.patch

See patches/autotools and spkg-src for details.

Type¶

standard

Dependencies¶

pkgconf: An implementation of the pkg-config spec

Version Information¶

package-version.txt:

1.0.6-20150304.p0

Equivalent System Packages¶

Alpine

$ apk add bzip2

conda-forge

$ conda install bzip2

Debian/Ubuntu

$ sudo apt-get install libbz2-dev bzip2

Fedora/Redhat/CentOS

$ sudo yum install bzip2 bzip2-devel

Homebrew

$ brew install bzip2

openSUSE

$ sudo zypper install bzip2 pkgconfig\(bzip2\)

Slackware

$ sudo slackpkg install bzip2

Void Linux

$ sudo xbps-install bzip2-devel

See https://repology.org/project/bzip2/versions

If the system package is installed, ./configure will check if it can be used.