pbzip2 1.1.13

Parallel bzip2 implementation

Pbzip2 is a parallel implementation of the bzip2 block-sorting file compressor that uses pthreads and achieves near-linear speedup on SMP machines. The output of this version is fully compatible with bzip2 v1.0.2 (i.e. anything compressed with pbzip2 can be decompressed with bzip2).

Outputs: out
Website: https://web.archive.org/web/20180412020219/http://compression.ca/pbzip2/
Licenses: non-copyleft
Package source: gnu/packages/compression.scm
Builds: See build status
Issues: See known issues

Installation

Install pbzip2 1.1.13 as follows:

guix install pbzip2@1.1.13

Or install the latest version:

guix install pbzip2

You can also install packages in augmented, pure or containerized environments for development or simply to try them out without polluting your user profile. See the guix shell documentation for more information.