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[6dfcfecc]1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
3 "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
4 <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
5 %general-entities;
6]>
7
8<sect1 id="ch-system-xz" role="wrap">
9 <?dbhtml filename="xz.html"?>
10
11 <sect1info condition="script">
12 <productname>xz</productname>
13 <productnumber>&xz-version;</productnumber>
14 <address>&xz-url;</address>
15 </sect1info>
16
17 <title>Xz-&xz-version;</title>
18
19 <indexterm zone="ch-system-xz">
20 <primary sortas="a-xz">Xz</primary>
21 </indexterm>
22
23 <sect2 role="package">
24 <title/>
25
26 <para>The Xz package contains programs for compressing and decompressing
27 files. It provides capabilities for the lzma and the newer xz compression
28 formats. Compressing text files with <command>xz</command> yields a better
29 compression percentage than with the traditional <command>gzip</command> or
30 <command>bzip2</command> commands.</para>
31
32 <segmentedlist>
33 <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
34 <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
35
36 <seglistitem>
37 <seg>&xz-fin-sbu;</seg>
38 <seg>&xz-fin-du;</seg>
39 </seglistitem>
40 </segmentedlist>
41
42 </sect2>
43
44 <sect2 role="installation">
45 <title>Installation of Xz</title>
46
[1d69418]47 <para>Apply a patch to fix an issue in xzgrep:</para>
48
49<screen><userinput remap="pre">patch -Np1 -i ../&xz-upstream-fix-patch;</userinput></screen>
50
[6dfcfecc]51 <para>Prepare Xz for compilation with:</para>
52
53<screen><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/usr \
54 --disable-static \
55 --docdir=/usr/share/doc/xz-&xz-version;</userinput></screen>
56
57 <para>Compile the package:</para>
58
59<screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>
60
61 <para>To test the results, issue:</para>
62
63<screen><userinput remap="test">make check</userinput></screen>
64
[d7a9421]65 <para>Install the package:</para>
[6dfcfecc]66
[d7a9421]67<screen><userinput remap="install">make install</userinput></screen>
[6dfcfecc]68
69 </sect2>
70
71 <!-- - - - - - - - - - -->
72 <!-- Multilib - 32bit -->
73 <!-- - - - - - - - - - -->
74
75 <sect2 arch="ml_32,ml_all" role="installation">
76 <title>Installation of Xz - 32bit</title>
77
78 <para>Clean previous build:</para>
79
80<screen><userinput remap="pre">make distclean</userinput></screen>
81
82 <para>Prepare Xz for compilation:</para>
83
84<screen><userinput remap="configure">CC="gcc -m32" ./configure \
[70aadfb]85 --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu \
86 --prefix=/usr \
87 --libdir=/usr/lib32 \
88 --disable-static</userinput></screen>
[6dfcfecc]89
90 <para>Compile the package:</para>
91
92<screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>
93
94 <para>Install the package:</para>
95
96<screen><userinput remap="install">make DESTDIR=$PWD/DESTDIR install
[0ebda11]97cp -Rv DESTDIR/usr/lib32/* /usr/lib32
[6dfcfecc]98rm -rf DESTDIR</userinput></screen>
99
100 </sect2><!-- m32 -->
101
102 <!-- - - - - - - - - - -->
103 <!-- Multilib - x32bit -->
104 <!-- - - - - - - - - - -->
105
106 <sect2 arch="ml_x32,ml_all" role="installation">
107 <title>Installation of Xz - x32bit</title>
108
109 <para>Clean previous build:</para>
110
111<screen><userinput remap="pre">make distclean</userinput></screen>
112
113 <para>Prepare Xz for compilation:</para>
114
115<screen><userinput remap="configure">CC="gcc -mx32" ./configure \
[70aadfb]116 --host=x86_64-pc-linux-gnux32 \
117 --prefix=/usr \
118 --libdir=/usr/libx32 \
119 --disable-static</userinput></screen>
[6dfcfecc]120
121 <para>Compile the package:</para>
122
123<screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>
124
125 <para>Install the package:</para>
126
127<screen><userinput remap="install">make DESTDIR=$PWD/DESTDIR install
[0ebda11]128cp -Rv DESTDIR/usr/libx32/* /usr/libx32
[6dfcfecc]129rm -rf DESTDIR</userinput></screen>
130
131 </sect2><!-- mx32 -->
132
133 <sect2 id="contents-xz" role="content">
134 <title>Contents of Xz</title>
135
136 <segmentedlist>
137 <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
138 <segtitle>Installed libraries</segtitle>
139 <segtitle>Installed directories</segtitle>
140
141 <seglistitem>
142 <seg>
[d672ab7]143 lzcat (link to xz),
144 lzcmp (link to xzdiff),
145 lzdiff (link to xzdiff),
146 lzegrep (link to xzgrep),
[6dfcfecc]147 lzfgrep (link to xzgrep),
[d672ab7]148 lzgrep (link to xzgrep),
149 lzless (link to xzless),
[6dfcfecc]150 lzma (link to xz),
[d672ab7]151 lzmadec,
152 lzmainfo,
[6dfcfecc]153 lzmore (link to xzmore),
[d672ab7]154 unlzma (link to xz),
155 unxz (link to xz),
156 xz,
[6dfcfecc]157 xzcat (link to xz),
[d672ab7]158 xzcmp (link to xzdiff),
159 xzdec,
160 xzdiff,
[6dfcfecc]161 xzegrep (link to xzgrep),
[d672ab7]162 xzfgrep (link to xzgrep),
163 xzgrep,
164 xzless, and
[6dfcfecc]165 xzmore</seg>
166 <seg>
167 liblzma.so
168 </seg>
169 <seg>
[d672ab7]170 /usr/include/lzma and
[6dfcfecc]171 /usr/share/doc/xz-&xz-version;
172 </seg>
173 </seglistitem>
174 </segmentedlist>
175
176 <variablelist>
177 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
178 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
179 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
180
181 <varlistentry id="lzcat">
182 <term><command>lzcat</command></term>
183 <listitem>
184 <para>Decompresses to standard output</para>
185 <indexterm zone="ch-system-xz lzcat">
186 <primary sortas="b-lzcat">lzcat</primary>
187 </indexterm>
188 </listitem>
189 </varlistentry>
190
191 <varlistentry id="lzcmp">
192 <term><command>lzcmp</command></term>
193 <listitem>
194 <para>Runs <command>cmp</command> on LZMA compressed files</para>
195 <indexterm zone="ch-system-xz lzcmp">
196 <primary sortas="b-lzcmp">lzcmp</primary>
197 </indexterm>
198 </listitem>
199 </varlistentry>
200
201 <varlistentry id="lzdiff">
202 <term><command>lzdiff</command></term>
203 <listitem>
204 <para>Runs <command>diff</command> on LZMA compressed files</para>
205 <indexterm zone="ch-system-xz lzdiff">
206 <primary sortas="b-lzdiff">lzdiff</primary>
207 </indexterm>
208 </listitem>
209 </varlistentry>
210
211 <varlistentry id="lzegrep">
212 <term><command>lzegrep</command></term>
213 <listitem>
214 <para>Runs <command>egrep</command> on LZMA compressed files</para>
215 <indexterm zone="ch-system-xz lzegrep">
216 <primary sortas="b-lzegrep">lzegrep</primary>
217 </indexterm>
218 </listitem>
219 </varlistentry>
220
221 <varlistentry id="lzfgrep">
222 <term><command>lzfgrep</command></term>
223 <listitem>
224 <para>Runs <command>fgrep</command> on LZMA compressed files</para>
225 <indexterm zone="ch-system-xz lzfgrep">
226 <primary sortas="b-lzfgrep">lzfgrep</primary>
227 </indexterm>
228 </listitem>
229 </varlistentry>
230
231 <varlistentry id="lzgrep">
232 <term><command>lzgrep</command></term>
233 <listitem>
234 <para>Runs <command>grep</command> on LZMA compressed files</para>
235 <indexterm zone="ch-system-xz lzgrep">
236 <primary sortas="b-lzgrep">lzgrep</primary>
237 </indexterm>
238 </listitem>
239 </varlistentry>
240
241 <varlistentry id="lzless">
242 <term><command>lzless</command></term>
243 <listitem>
244 <para>Runs <command>less</command> on LZMA compressed files</para>
245 <indexterm zone="ch-system-xz lzless">
246 <primary sortas="b-lzless">lzless</primary>
247 </indexterm>
248 </listitem>
249 </varlistentry>
250
251 <varlistentry id="lzma">
252 <term><command>lzma</command></term>
253 <listitem>
254 <para>Compresses or decompresses files using the LZMA format</para>
255 <indexterm zone="ch-system-xz lzma">
256 <primary sortas="b-lzma">lzma</primary>
257 </indexterm>
258 </listitem>
259 </varlistentry>
260
261 <varlistentry id="lzmadec">
262 <term><command>lzmadec</command></term>
263 <listitem>
264 <para>A small and fast decoder for LZMA compressed files</para>
265 <indexterm zone="ch-system-xz lzmadec">
266 <primary sortas="b-lzmadec">lzmadec</primary>
267 </indexterm>
268 </listitem>
269 </varlistentry>
270
271 <varlistentry id="lzmainfo">
272 <term><command>lzmainfo</command></term>
273 <listitem>
274 <para>Shows information stored in the LZMA compressed file header</para>
275 <indexterm zone="ch-system-xz lzmainfo">
276 <primary sortas="b-lzmainfo">lzmainfo</primary>
277 </indexterm>
278 </listitem>
279 </varlistentry>
280
281 <varlistentry id="lzmore">
282 <term><command>lzmore</command></term>
283 <listitem>
284 <para>Runs <command>more</command> on LZMA compressed files</para>
285 <indexterm zone="ch-system-xz lzmore">
286 <primary sortas="b-lzmamore">lzmore</primary>
287 </indexterm>
288 </listitem>
289 </varlistentry>
290
291 <varlistentry id="unlzma">
292 <term><command>unlzma</command></term>
293 <listitem>
294 <para>Decompresses files using the LZMA format</para>
295 <indexterm zone="ch-system-xz unlzma">
296 <primary sortas="b-unlzma">unlzma</primary>
297 </indexterm>
298 </listitem>
299 </varlistentry>
300
301 <varlistentry id="unxz">
302 <term><command>unxz</command></term>
303 <listitem>
304 <para>Decompresses files using the XZ format</para>
305 <indexterm zone="ch-system-xz unxz">
306 <primary sortas="b-unxz">unxz</primary>
307 </indexterm>
308 </listitem>
309 </varlistentry>
310
311 <varlistentry id="xz">
312 <term><command>xz</command></term>
313 <listitem>
314 <para>Compresses or decompresses files using the XZ format</para>
315 <indexterm zone="ch-system-xz xz">
316 <primary sortas="b-xz">xz</primary>
317 </indexterm>
318 </listitem>
319 </varlistentry>
320
321 <varlistentry id="xzcat">
322 <term><command>xzcat</command></term>
323 <listitem>
324 <para>Decompresses to standard output</para>
325 <indexterm zone="ch-system-xz xzcat">
326 <primary sortas="b-xzcat">xzcat</primary>
327 </indexterm>
328 </listitem>
329 </varlistentry>
330
331 <varlistentry id="xzcmp">
332 <term><command>xzcmp</command></term>
333 <listitem>
334 <para>Runs <command>cmp</command> on XZ compressed files</para>
335 <indexterm zone="ch-system-xz xzcmp">
336 <primary sortas="b-xzcmp">xzcmp</primary>
337 </indexterm>
338 </listitem>
339 </varlistentry>
340
341 <varlistentry id="xzdec">
342 <term><command>xzdec</command></term>
343 <listitem>
344 <para>A small and fast decoder for XZ compressed files</para>
345 <indexterm zone="ch-system-xz xzdec">
346 <primary sortas="b-xzdec">xzdec</primary>
347 </indexterm>
348 </listitem>
349 </varlistentry>
350
351 <varlistentry id="xzdiff">
352 <term><command>xzdiff</command></term>
353 <listitem>
354 <para>Runs <command>diff</command> on XZ compressed files</para>
355 <indexterm zone="ch-system-xz xzdiff">
356 <primary sortas="b-xzdiff">xzdiff</primary>
357 </indexterm>
358 </listitem>
359 </varlistentry>
360
361 <varlistentry id="xzegrep">
362 <term><command>xzegrep</command></term>
363 <listitem>
364 <para>Runs <command>egrep</command> on XZ compressed files</para>
365 <indexterm zone="ch-system-xz xzegrep">
366 <primary sortas="b-xzegrep">xzegrep</primary>
367 </indexterm>
368 </listitem>
369 </varlistentry>
370
371 <varlistentry id="xzfgrep">
372 <term><command>xzfgrep</command></term>
373 <listitem>
374 <para>Runs <command>fgrep</command> on XZ compressed files</para>
375 <indexterm zone="ch-system-xz xzfgrep">
376 <primary sortas="b-xzfgrep">xzfgrep</primary>
377 </indexterm>
378 </listitem>
379 </varlistentry>
380
381 <varlistentry id="xzgrep">
382 <term><command>xzgrep</command></term>
383 <listitem>
384 <para>Runs <command>grep</command> on XZ compressed files</para>
385 <indexterm zone="ch-system-xz xzgrep">
386 <primary sortas="b-xzgrep">xzgrep</primary>
387 </indexterm>
388 </listitem>
389 </varlistentry>
390
391 <varlistentry id="xzless">
392 <term><command>xzless</command></term>
393 <listitem>
394 <para>Runs <command>less</command> on XZ compressed files</para>
395 <indexterm zone="ch-system-xz xzless">
396 <primary sortas="b-xzless">xzless</primary>
397 </indexterm>
398 </listitem>
399 </varlistentry>
400
401 <varlistentry id="xzmore">
402 <term><command>xzmore</command></term>
403 <listitem>
404 <para>Runs <command>more</command> on XZ compressed files</para>
405 <indexterm zone="ch-system-xz xzmore">
406 <primary sortas="b-xzmore">xzmore</primary>
407 </indexterm>
408 </listitem>
409 </varlistentry>
410
411 <varlistentry id="liblzma">
412 <term><filename class="libraryfile">liblzma</filename></term>
413 <listitem>
414 <para>The library implementing lossless, block-sorting data
415 compression, using the Lempel-Ziv-Markov chain algorithm</para>
416 <indexterm zone="ch-system-xz liblzma">
417 <primary sortas="c-liblzma">liblzma</primary>
418 </indexterm>
419 </listitem>
420 </varlistentry>
421
422 </variablelist>
423
424 </sect2>
425
426</sect1>
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