Information about the package, lrzip, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The lrzip package is designed for, Compression program optimized for large files.
Package Name:
lrzip
Summary:
Compression program optimized for large files
Description:
Long Range ZIP or Lzma RZIP This is a compression program optimized for large files. The larger the file and the more memory you have, the better the compression advantage this will provide, especially once the files are larger than 100 MB. The advantage can be chosen to be either size (much smaller than bzip2) or speed (much faster than bzip2). Decompression is always much faster than bzip2.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
0.616
Release:
5.el6
Size:
188 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2+
Control the lrzip package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install lrzip
This command will install lrzip on the server.
yum remove lrzip
This command will un-install lrzip on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove lrzip, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove lrzip
This command will un-install lrzip on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove lrzip when using the -y flag.
yum update lrzip
This command will update lrzip to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove lrzip, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update lrzip
This command will update lrzip to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove lrzip when using the -y flag.
yum info lrzip
This command will show you core information about the lrzip package.
yum deplist lrzip
This command will show you the dependencies for lrzip. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update lrzip
This command will check if there is an update waiting on lrzip. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.