Bzip2

Official Download Location

Bzip2 (1.0.1): 
ftp://sourceware.cygnus.com/pub/bzip2/

Contents of bzip2-1.0.1

Program Files

bunzip2 (link to bzip2), bzcat (link to bzip2), bzip2 and bzip2recover

Descriptions

bunzip2

Bunzip2 decompresses files that are compressed with bzip2.

bzcat

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

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.

bzip2recover

bzip2recover recovers data from damaged bzip2 files.

Library Files

libbz2.[a,so]

libbz2

libbz2 is the library for implementing lossless, block-sorting data compression using the Burrows-Wheeler algorithm.

Dependencies

Bzip2-1.0.1 needs the following to be installed:


bash: sh
binutils: ar, as, ld
fileutils: cp, ln, rm
gcc: gcc
make: make