Installing Bzip2

Installation of Bzip2

Install Bzip2 by running the following commands:



root:bzip2-1.0.1# sed \
> s/"\$(CC) \$(CFLAGS) -o"/"\$(CC) \$(CFLAGS) \$(LDFLAGS) -o"/ \
> Makefile | make -f /dev/stdin LDFLAGS=-static
root:bzip2-1.0.1# make PREFIX=$LFS/usr install
root:bzip2-1.0.1# cd $LFS/usr/bin
root:bin# mv bzcat bunzip2 bzip2 bzip2recover $LFS/bin

Contents

The Bzip2 packages contains the bzip2, bunzip2, bzcat and bzip2recover programs.

Description

Bzip2

bzip2 compresses files using the Burrows-Wheeler block sorting text compression algorithm, and Huffman coding. Compression is generally considerably better than that achieved by more conventional LZ77/LZ78-based compressors, and approaches the performance of the PPM family of statistical compressors.

Bunzip2

Bunzip2 decompresses files that are compressed with bzip2.

bzcat

bzcat (or bzip2 -dc) decompresses all specified files to the standard output.

bzip2recover

bzip2recover recovers data from damaged bzip2 files.