xz: Lossless compression utility and library

Contents

  1. Overview of package
  2. Overview of package
    1. General usage
  3. Availability of package by cluster

Overview of package

General information about package
Package: xz
Description: Lossless compression utility and library
For more information: https://sourceware.org/bzip://tukaani.org/xz/format.html
Categories:
License: OpenSource (Public Domain and various Open Source)

General usage information

xz is a lossless compression utility, library, and file format based on the LZMA/LZMA2 compression algorithms.

The xz and various xz* and lz* commands have been added to your path.

In case you need to link against this library in your code, the following environmental variables have been defined:

  • \$XZ_ROOT has been set to the root of the xz installation
  • \$XZ_LIBDIR points to the directory containing the libraries
  • \$XZ_INCDIR points to the directory containing the header files

You will probably wish to use these by adding the following flags to your compilation command (e.g. to CFLAGS in your Makefile):

  • -I\$XZ_INCDIR
and the following flags to your link command (e.g. LDFLAGS in your Makefile):
  • -L\$XZ_LIBDIR -Wl,-rpath,\$XZ_LIBDIR${endlist}

    Available versions of the package xz, by cluster

    This section lists the available versions of the package xzon the different clusters.

    Available versions of xz on the Deepthought2 cluster (RHEL8)

    Available versions of xz on the Deepthought2 cluster (RHEL8)
    Version Module tags CPU optimized for GPU ready?
    5.2.5 xz/5.2.5 ivybridge N

    Available versions of xz on the Juggernaut cluster

    Available versions of xz on the Juggernaut cluster
    Version Module tags CPU optimized for GPU ready?
    5.2.5 xz/5.2.5 broadwell N