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Package: lzma (4.43-12ubuntu1)

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Please consider filing a bug or asking a question via Launchpad before contacting the maintainer directly.

Original Maintainers (usually from Debian):

  • Mohammed Adnène Trojette
  • Arnaud Fontaine

It should generally not be necessary for users to contact the original maintainer.

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Compression method of 7z format in 7-Zip program

LZMA is a compression algorithm, based on the famous Lempel Ziv compression method.

The main characteristics of the algorithm are very good compression, fast decompression, use of lot of RAM for compression and low usage of RAM for decompression.

LZMA provides high compression ratio and very fast decompression, so it is very suitable for embedded applications. For example, it can be used for ROM (firmware) compression.

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    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
    also a virtual package provided by libc6-udeb
  • dep: libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1-21) [i386]
    GCC support library
    dep: libgcc1 (>= 1:4.2.1) [amd64]
  • dep: libstdc++6 (>= 4.2.1) [amd64]
    The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
    dep: libstdc++6 (>= 4.2.1-4) [i386]

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Architecture Package Size Installed Size Files
amd64 117.1 kB312.0 kB [list of files]
i386 116.3 kB296.0 kB [list of files]