pigz should be able to replace gzip
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| pigz (Debian) |
Fix Released
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Unknown
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| pigz (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
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Wishlist
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Binary package hint: pigz
Although pigz claims to be a complete replacement of gzip, it can't be used like that on a normal Ubuntu system without a lot of hackery. The reason is that the normal gzip is a dependency of lots of packages, so it can't be easily removed.
Ideally there should be a package (say, pigz-replacement) that depends on pigz, and which replaces gzip, such that its installation removes gzip but satisfies all dependencies on it. This would only add a symlink from gzip to pigz, or something like that.
(Though since gzip is by default installed in /bin and pigz in /usr/bin, there might be a bit more to it than that.)
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Feb 17 18:18:26 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelMo
Package: pigz 2.1.5-1
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSign
SourcePackage: pigz
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-20-generic x86_64
| Bogdan Butnaru (bogdanb) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in pigz (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Triaged |
| importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
| TitusX (titusx) wrote | #2 |
| eraserix (eraserix) wrote | #3 |
| Changed in pigz (Debian): | |
| status: | Unknown → New |
| Changed in pigz (Debian): | |
| status: | New → Fix Released |
I tried this a while ago ... for me it works:
"sudo apt-get install pigz
sudo mv /bin/gzip /bin/gzip.dpkg-new
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/pigz /etc/alternativ
sudo ln -s /etc/alternativ
I think parallel decompression tools would be a quick win
for all distros. And I found this interesting link for bzip2:
http://