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lbzip2

Parallel bzip2/bunzip2 Filter

About lbzip2

Parallel bzip2/bunzip2 Filter

This project links 5 native package records across 5 recorded operating-system releases. Compare the retained versions and architectures below, then open the package for your own release.

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Debian 13 (Trixie): 1 package records; Fedora 43: 1 package records; Fedora 44: 1 package records; openSUSE Leap 15.6: 1 package records; openSUSE Tumbleweed: 1 package records. Catalog coverage diagram, not an application screenshot.lbzip2: recorded package coverageDebian 13 (Trixie)1 recordsFedora 431 recordsFedora 441 recordsopenSUSE Leap 15.61 recordsopenSUSE Tumbleweed1 records
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Project identity

Project
lbzip2
Publisher
Not authoritatively mapped
Native package records
5
Operating systems
debian-13, fedora-43, fedora-44, opensuse-leap-15-6, opensuse-tumbleweed
License expression
GPL-3.0-or-later
Metadata completeness
100/100 (not a software quality rating)
Homepage
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Source repository
Open source repository

Source-reported description

The fullest retained description is shown with its source. Distribution packaging descriptions may include downstream details.

Lbzip2 is a Pthreads-based parallel bzip2/bunzip2 filter, passable to GNU tar with the --use-compress-program option. It isn't restricted to regular files on input, nor output. Successful splitting for decompression isn't guaranteed, just very likely (failure is detected). Splitting in both modes and compression itself occur with an approximate 900k block size. On an Athlon-64 X2 6000+, lbzip2 was 92% faster than standard bzip2 when compressing, and 45% faster when decompressing (based on wall clock time). Lbzip2 strives to be portable by requiring UNIX 98 APIs only, besides an unmodified libbz2.

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Packages by operating system

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Debian 13 (Trixie)

  1. lbzip2

    Debian 13 (Trixie) / utils

    2.5-4

    fast, multi-threaded bzip2 utility

    amd64arm64trixie

Fedora 43

  1. lbzip2

    Fedora 43 / Unspecified / source lbzip2

    2.5-33.20171011gitb6dc48a.fc43

    Fast, multi-threaded bzip2 utility

    aarch64x86_6443

Fedora 44

  1. lbzip2

    Fedora 44 / Unspecified / source lbzip2

    2.5-34.20171011gitb6dc48a.fc44

    Fast, multi-threaded bzip2 utility

    aarch64x86_6444

openSUSE Leap 15.6

  1. lbzip2

    openSUSE Leap 15.6 / Productivity/Archiving/Compression / source lbzip2

    2.5-bp156.4.6

    Parallel bzip2/bunzip2 Filter

    aarch64ppc64les390xx86_64leap-15.6

openSUSE Tumbleweed

  1. lbzip2

    openSUSE Tumbleweed / Productivity/Archiving/Compression / source lbzip2

    2.5-7.19

    Parallel bzip2/bunzip2 Filter

    x86_64tumbleweed

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Mapping provenance

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