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bzip2

License information

The bzip2 package is copyrighted by its current maintainer. The conditions can be found at the top of the manual.

User documentation

What is bzip2?

Bzip2 is a freely available, patent free, high-quality data compressor. It typically compresses files to within 10% to 15% of the best available techniques (the PPM family of statistical compressors), whilst being around twice as fast at compression and six times faster at decompression. It is based on the Burrows-Wheeler block-sorting text compression algorithm and Huffman coding.

Pre-installed modules (and EasyConfigs)

To access module help and find out for which stacks and partitions the module is installed, use module spider bzip2/<version>.

EasyConfig:

Technical documentation

EasyBuild

Version 1.08 from CPE 21.06 on

  • The EasyConfig is based on an EasyConfig and patch from the EasyBuilders repository with additional documentation from UAntwerpen.

    The patch replaces work done with postinstallcmds in the CSCS EasyConfig.

    At the time of development, the patch used by the build recipes in the EasyBuilders repository contained a bug. The patch in this repository is already a corrected one and a bug report was submitted. We also modified the home page to a new one.

  • Switched to the modified way of specifying checksums from 22.12 on.

Archived EasyConfigs

The EasyConfigs below are additonal easyconfigs that are not directly available on the system for installation. Users are advised to use the newer ones and these archived ones are unsupported. They are still provided as a source of information should you need this, e.g., to understand the configuration that was used for earlier work on the system.