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<sect1 id="ch-system-bzip2" role="wrap">
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  <title>Bzip2-&bzip2-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="ch-system-bzip2">
    <primary sortas="a-Bzip2">Bzip2</primary>
  </indexterm>

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title/>

    <para>The Bzip2 package contains programs for compressing and decompressing
    files. Compressing text files with <command>bzip2</command> yields a much
    better compression percentage than with the traditional
    <command>gzip</command>.</para>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
      <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>&bzip2-ch6-sbu;</seg>
        <seg>&bzip2-ch6-du;</seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of Bzip2</title>

    <para>Apply a patch to install the documentation for this package:</para>

<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&bzip2-docs-patch;</userinput></screen>

    <para>Prepare Bzip2 for compilation with:</para>

<screen><userinput>make -f Makefile-libbz2_so
make clean</userinput></screen>

    <variablelist>
      <title>The meaning of the make parameter:</title>

      <varlistentry>
        <term><parameter>-f Makefile-libbz2_so</parameter></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>This will cause Bzip2 to be built using a different
          <filename>Makefile</filename> file, in this case the
          <filename>Makefile-libbz2_so</filename> file, which creates a dynamic
          <filename class="libraryfile">libbz2.so</filename> library and links
          the Bzip2 utilities against it.</para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

    <para>Compile and test the package:</para>

<screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>

    <para>If reinstalling Bzip2, perform
    <userinput>rm -vf /usr/bin/bz*</userinput> first, otherwise the following
    <command>make install</command> will fail.</para>

    <para>Install the programs:</para>

<screen><userinput>make PREFIX=/usr install</userinput></screen>

    <para>Install the shared <command>bzip2</command> binary into the
    <filename class="directory">/bin</filename> directory, make
    some necessary symbolic links, and clean up:</para>

<screen><userinput>cp -v bzip2-shared /bin/bzip2
cp -av libbz2.so* /lib
ln -sv ../../lib/libbz2.so.1.0 /usr/lib/libbz2.so
rm -v /usr/bin/{bunzip2,bzcat,bzip2}
ln -sv bzip2 /bin/bunzip2
ln -sv bzip2 /bin/bzcat</userinput></screen>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 id="contents-bzip2" role="content">
    <title>Contents of Bzip2</title>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed libraries</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>bunzip2 (link to bzip2), bzcat (link to bzip2), bzcmp, bzdiff,
        bzegrep, bzfgrep, bzgrep, bzip2, bzip2recover, bzless, and bzmore</seg>
        <seg>libbz2.{a,so}</seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

    <variablelist>
      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>

      <varlistentry id="bunzip2">
        <term><command>bunzip2</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Decompresses bzipped files</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-bzip2 bunzip2">
            <primary sortas="b-bunzip2">bunzip2</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="bzcat">
        <term><command>bzcat</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Decompresses to standard output</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-bzip2 bzcat">
            <primary sortas="b-bzcat">bzcat</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="bzcmp">
        <term><command>bzcmp</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Runs <command>cmp</command> on bzipped files</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-bzip2 bzcmp">
            <primary sortas="b-bzcmp">bzcmp</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="bzdiff">
        <term><command>bzdiff</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Runs <command>diff</command> on bzipped files</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-bzip2 bzdiff">
            <primary sortas="b-bzdiff">bzdiff</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="bzgrep">
        <term><command>bzgrep</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Runs <command>grep</command> on bzipped files</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-bzip2 bzgrep">
            <primary sortas="b-bzgrep">bzgrep</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="bzegrep">
        <term><command>bzegrep</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Runs <command>egrep</command> on bzipped files</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-bzip2 bzegrep">
            <primary sortas="b-bzegrep">bzegrep</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="bzfgrep">
        <term><command>bzfgrep</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Runs <command>fgrep</command> on bzipped files</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-bzip2 bzfgrep">
            <primary sortas="b-bzfgrep">bzfgrep</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="bzip2">
        <term><command>bzip2</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Compresses files using the Burrows-Wheeler block sorting text
          compression algorithm with Huffman coding; the compression rate is
          better than that achieved by more conventional compressors using
          <quote>Lempel-Ziv</quote> algorithms, like <command>gzip</command></para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-bzip2 bzip2">
            <primary sortas="b-bzip2">bzip2</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="bzip2recover">
        <term><command>bzip2recover</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Tries to recover data from damaged bzipped files</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-bzip2 bzip2recover">
            <primary sortas="b-bzip2recover">bzip2recover</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="bzless">
        <term><command>bzless</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Runs <command>less</command> on bzipped files</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-bzip2 bzless">
            <primary sortas="b-bzless">bzless</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="bzmore">
        <term><command>bzmore</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Runs <command>more</command> on bzipped files</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-bzip2 bzmore">
            <primary sortas="b-bzmore">bzmore</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="libbz2">
        <term><filename class="libraryfile">libbz2*</filename></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>The library implementing lossless, block-sorting data
          compression, using the Burrows-Wheeler algorithm</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-bzip2 libbz2">
            <primary sortas="c-libbz2*">libbz2*</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

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