Information about the package, pbzip2, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The pbzip2 package is designed for, Parallel implementation of bzip2.
Package Name:
pbzip2
Summary:
Parallel implementation of bzip2
Description:
PBZIP2 is a parallel implementation of the bzip2 block-sorting file compressor that uses pthreads and achieves near-linear speedup on SMP machines. The output of this version is fully compatible with bzip2 v1.0.2 or newer (ie: anything compressed with pbzip2 can be decompressed with bzip2).
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
1.1.12
Release:
1.el6
Size:
48 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
BSD
Control the pbzip2 package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install pbzip2
This command will install pbzip2 on the server.
yum remove pbzip2
This command will un-install pbzip2 on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove pbzip2, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove pbzip2
This command will un-install pbzip2 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 pbzip2 when using the -y flag.
yum update pbzip2
This command will update pbzip2 to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove pbzip2, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update pbzip2
This command will update pbzip2 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 pbzip2 when using the -y flag.
yum info pbzip2
This command will show you core information about the pbzip2 package.
yum deplist pbzip2
This command will show you the dependencies for pbzip2. 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 pbzip2
This command will check if there is an update waiting on pbzip2. 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.