<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [ <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent"> %general-entities; ]> <sect1 id="ch-system-bzip2" role="wrap"> <?dbhtml filename="bzip2.html"?> <sect1info condition="script"> <productname>bzip2</productname> <productnumber>&bzip2-version;</productnumber> <address>&bzip2-url;</address> </sect1info> <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 that will install the documentation for this package:</para> <screen><userinput remap="pre">patch -Np1 -i ../&bzip2-docs-patch;</userinput></screen> <para>The following command ensures installation of symbolic links are relative:</para> <screen><userinput remap="pre">sed -i 's@\(ln -s -f \)$(PREFIX)/bin/@\1@' Makefile</userinput></screen> <para>Ensure the man pages are installed into the correct location:</para> <screen><userinput remap="pre">sed -i "s@(PREFIX)/man@(PREFIX)/share/man@g" Makefile</userinput></screen> <para>Prepare Bzip2 for compilation with:</para> <screen><userinput remap="make">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 remap="make">make</userinput></screen> <para>Install the programs:</para> <screen><userinput remap="install">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 remap="install">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> <segtitle>Installed directory</segtitle> <seglistitem> <seg>bunzip2 (link to bzip2), bzcat (link to bzip2), bzcmp (link to bzdiff), bzdiff, bzegrep (link to bzgrep), bzfgrep (link to bzgrep), bzgrep, bzip2, bzip2recover, bzless (link to bzmore), and bzmore</seg> <seg>libbz2.{a,so}</seg> <seg>/usr/share/doc/bzip2-&bzip2-version;</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="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="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="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> </sect1>