5.19. Installing Gzip-1.3.5

5.19.1. Contents of Gzip

The Gzip package contains programs to compress and decompress files using the Lempel-Ziv coding (LZ77).

Installed programs: gunzip (link to gzip), gzexe, gzip, uncompress (link to gunzip), zcat (link to gzip), zcmp, zdiff, zegrep, zfgrep, zforce, zgrep, zless, zmore and znew

5.19.2.

5.19.3. Gzip Installation Dependencies

Gzip depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, Sed.

5.19.4.

5.19.5. Installation of Gzip

Prepare Gzip for compilation:

./configure --prefix=/tools

Compile the package:

make

And install it:

make install