How To Install Bsdcpio On Debian, Ubuntu, Arch, Kali, CentOS, Fedora And Raspbian?

How To Install Bsdcpio On Debian, Ubuntu, Arch, Kali, CentOS, Fedora And Raspbian?

bsdcpio

transitional dummy package for moving bsdcpio to libarchive-tools

Maintainer: Peter Pentchev



Section: utils

Install bsdcpio

  • Debian apt-get install bsdcpio Click to copy
  • Ubuntu apt-get install bsdcpio Click to copy
  • Arch Linux pacman -S bsdcpio Click to copy
  • Kali Linux apt-get install bsdcpio Click to copy
  • CentOS yum install bsdcpio Click to copy
  • Fedora dnf install bsdcpio Click to copy
  • Raspbian apt-get install bsdcpio Click to copy

bsdcpio

transitional dummy package for moving bsdcpio to libarchive-tools

The bsdcpio program is the default system 'cpio' program used on FreeBSD. bsdcpio uses the libarchive library as a backend which does all of the work for reading and writing archives in various formats. This is a transitional package for the migration of the bsdcpio tool to the libarchive-tools package.

libarchive-tools

FreeBSD implementations of 'tar' and 'cpio' and other archive tools

This package contains several command-line tools based on the libarchive library. The bsdtar program is the default system 'tar' program used on FreeBSD. bsdtar uses the libarchive library as a backend which does all of the work for reading and writing archives in various formats. The bsdcpio program is the default system 'cpio' program used on FreeBSD. bsdcpio uses the libarchive library as a backend which does all of the work for reading and writing archives in various formats. The bsdcat program reads archived data from files or from its standard input and uses the libarchive library to decompresses it to its standard output. It may be used for viewing the contents of archives or for passing it to other tools for further processing.

libarchive

Libarchive is a programming library that can create and read

several different streaming archive formats, including most popular tar variants, several cpio formats, and both BSD and GNU ar variants. It can also write shar archives and read ISO9660 CDROM images and ZIP archives.

Install the latest version of bsdcpio in Debian, Ubuntu, Arch, Kali, CentOS, Fedora and Raspbian from terminal. To install the bsdcpio just copy the above command for your OS and run into terminal. After you run the command it will grab the latest version of bsdcpio from the respository and install it in your computer/server.