Ubuntu
pigz package

  1. Bug #523309
  2. Comment #2

Comment 2 for bug 523309

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TitusX (titusx) wrote :

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/alternatives/gzip
sudo ln -s /etc/alternatives/gzip /bin/gzip"

I think parallel decompression tools would be a quick win
for all distros. And I found this interesting link for bzip2:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Dbzip2