%general-entities; ]> libarchive The libarchive library provides a single interface for reading/writing various compression formats. &lfs122_checked; Package Information Download (HTTP): Download (FTP): Download MD5 sum: &libarchive-md5sum; Download size: &libarchive-size; Estimated disk space required: &libarchive-buildsize; Estimated build time: &libarchive-time; libarchive Dependencies Recommended Optional , , and Install libarchive by running the following commands: ./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static --without-expat && make To test the results, issue: LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 make check. Now, as the root user: make install --without-expat: This switch disables using expat for xar format support. Due to a bug the xar reader will loop infinitely if expat is used. The upstream prefers libxml2 for xar support anyway. --without-nettle: This switch sets OpenSSL for crypto support instead of preferred Nettle if both packages are installed. Installed Programs Installed Libraries Installed Directories bsdcat, bsdcpio, bsdtar, and bsdunzip libarchive.so None Short Descriptions bsdcat expands files to standard output bsdcat bsdcpio is a tool similar to cpio bsdcpio bsdtar is a tool similar to GNU tar bsdtar bsdunzip is a tool similar to Info-ZIP unzip bsdunzip libarchive.so is a library that can create and read several streaming archive formats libarchive.so