5.18. Installing Bzip2-1.0.2

5.18.1. Contents of Bzip2

Bzip2 is a block-sorting file compressor which generally achieves a better compression than the traditional gzip does.

Installed programs: bunzip2 (link to bzip2), bzcat (link to bzip2), bzcmp, bzdiff, bzegrep, bzfgrep, bzgrep, bzip2, bzip2recover, bzless and bzmore

Installed libraries: libbz2.a, libbz2.so (link to libbz2.so.1.0), libbz2.so.1.0 (link to libbz2.so.1.0.2) and libbz2.so.1.0.2

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5.18.3. Bzip2 Installation Dependencies

Bzip2 depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, GCC, Glibc, Make.

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5.18.5. Installation of Bzip2

The Bzip2 package doesn't contain a configure script. Compile and install it with a straightforward:

make PREFIX=/tools install