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  2. pax (command) - Wikipedia

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    pax is an archiving utility available for various operating systems and defined since 1995. [1] Rather than sort out the incompatible options that have crept up between tar and cpio, along with their implementations across various versions of Unix, the IEEE designed a new archive utility pax that could support various archive formats with useful options from both archivers.

  3. pip (package manager) - Wikipedia

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    An output of pip install virtualenv. Pip's command-line interface allows the install of Python software packages by issuing a command: pip install some-package-name. Users can also remove the package by issuing a command: pip uninstall some-package-name

  4. tar (computing) - Wikipedia

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    In computing, tar is a computer software utility for collecting many files into one archive file, often referred to as a tarball, for distribution or backup purposes. The name is derived from "tape archive", as it was originally developed to write data to sequential I/O devices with no file system of their own, such as devices that use magnetic tape.

  5. Portage (software) - Wikipedia

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    The command is customizable with many options and modifiers. The emerge tool is the most important utility for accessing the features of Portage from the command line . The program calculates and manages dependencies, executes ebuilds and maintains the local Portage tree and database of installed packages.

  6. RPM Package Manager - Wikipedia

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    A file archive (the payload), which usually is in cpio format, compressed with gzip. The rpm2cpio tool enables retrieval of the cpio file without needing to install the RPM package. [18] The Linux Standard Base requires the use of gzip, but Fedora 30 packages are xz-compressed and Fedora 31 packages might be zstd-compressed. [19]

  7. gzip - Wikipedia

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    gzip is a file format and a software application used for file compression and decompression.The program was created by Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler as a free software replacement for the compress program used in early Unix systems, and intended for use by GNU (from which the "g" of gzip is derived).

  8. GNU Guix - Wikipedia

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    Inherited from the design of Nix, most of the content of the package manager is kept in a directory /gnu/store where only the Guix daemon has write-access. This is achieved via specialised bind mounts, where the Store as a file system is mounted read only, prohibiting interference even from the root user, while the Guix daemon remounts the Store as read/writable in its own private namespace.

  9. Linux From Scratch - Wikipedia

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    grep is a command line text search utility originally written for Unix. Groff: Groff is the GNU replacement for the troff and nroff text formatters. GRUB: GNU GRUB (short for GNU GRand Unified Bootloader) is a boot loader package from the GNU Project. Gzip: Gzip is a software application used for file compression. gzip is short for GNU zip iana ...