On Wed, 30 Jan 2002 19:14:39 -0800, Doug Jolley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi -- > > I'm new to Debian. Can anyone please tell me what the deal is > with the libz1 package? It seems to be needed by quite a few > other packages. Accordingly, I was surprised when I couldn't > find it on my distribution CDs. I was even more surprised when > I couldn't find it in the packages section of the Debian web > site. I'm sure I'm missing something pretty basic. It's a library implementing a compression algorithm (the same one used by gzip). It's used in images, document formats, file archives (including *.debs), and all manner of things where using fewer bytes matters (files, network data transfers, other?). Curiously, it has a unique package name for a library "zlib1g". -- Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>
