BSD Ports

archivers/bzip2 1.0.8p0 OpenBSD

block-sorting file compressor, unencumbered

System
OpenBSD
Repository
OpenBSD ports
Maintainer
The OpenBSD ports mailing-list <[email protected]>
Categories
archivers

Description

This is bzip2, a block-sorting file compressor.

From the README:

To the best of my knowledge, bzip2 does not use any patented algorithms. However, I do not have the resources available to carry out a full patent search. Therefore I cannot give any guarantee of the above statement.

In the other systems

SystemPortVersion
OpenBSDarchivers/bzip21.0.8p0
FreeBSDarchivers/bzip21.0.8_1
NetBSDarchivers/bzip21.0.8
DragonFlyarchivers/bzip21.0.8_1
MidnightBSDarchivers/bzip21.0.8

Install

Binary package:

pkg_add bzip2

From the ports tree:

cd /usr/ports/archivers/bzip2 && make install

Dependencies

Build dependencies 1
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