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Zlib
Zlib is a massively spiffy yet delicately unobtrusive compression library. This package provides the compression and decompression functions used by many programs throughout the system.
Features
- Implements the deflate compression method used in gzip and PNG
- Provides lossless data compression
- Stream-based API for easy integration
- Thread-safe implementation
- Portable across different platforms
Description
Zlib is designed to be a free, general-purpose, legally unencumbered lossless data-compression library for use on virtually any computer hardware and operating system. The zlib data format is itself portable across platforms.
This library provides the compression and decompression functions that are essential for many system utilities and applications, including:
- Archive managers
- Network protocols
- Image processing
- Data backup tools
- Document formats
Installation
This package installs the shared compression library (libz.so) that provides the core compression and decompression functionality. The static library is removed during installation as it's not needed for most use cases and helps reduce the system footprint.
License
Zlib is released under the zlib License, which is a permissive free software license that allows for use in proprietary software.