Re: libz1 package
On Wed, 30 Jan 2002 19:14:39 -0800, Doug Jolley <doug@footech.com> wrote:
> Hi --
>
> I'm new to Debian. Can anyone please tell me what the deal is
> with the libz1 package? It seems to be needed by quite a few
> other packages. Accordingly, I was surprised when I couldn't
> find it on my distribution CDs. I was even more surprised when
> I couldn't find it in the packages section of the Debian web
> site. I'm sure I'm missing something pretty basic.
It's a library implementing a compression algorithm (the same
one used by gzip). It's used in images, document formats,
file archives (including *.debs), and all manner of things
where using fewer bytes matters (files, network data transfers,
other?).
Curiously, it has a unique package name for a library "zlib1g".
--
Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>
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