Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install arc on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is arc
arc is:
This program is based on the MSDOS ARC program, version 5.21, plus a few
enhancements.
ARC also performs Huffman Squeezing on data. The Huffman Squeeze algorithm
was removed from MSDOS ARC after version 5.12. It turns out to be more
efficient than Lempel-Ziv style compression when compressing graphic images.
Squeeze analysis is always done now, and the best of packing, squeezing,
or crunching is used.
Compresses and extracts Squashed files. “Squashing†was created by
Phil Katz in his PKxxx series of ARC utility programs for MSDOS.
Dan Lanciani wrote the original modifications to ARC’s Crunch code to
handle Squashing. Klaus Reimer made minor changes since then, mostly to
reduce the amount of memory required. The ‘q’ option flag must be
specified to Squash files. The Squashing algorithm will be used instead
of the usual Crunch algorithm, and will be compared against packing and
squeezing, as before.
This package provides the arc and marc commands. MARC can be used to merge
files compressed by ARC.
There are three methods to install arc on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install arc Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install arc using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install arc
Install arc Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install arc using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install arc
Install arc Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install arc using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install arc
How To Uninstall arc on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the arc package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove arc
Uninstall arc And Its Dependencies
To uninstall arc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove arc
Remove arc Configurations and Data
To remove arc configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge arc
Remove arc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove arc configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge arc
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install arc package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
