libarchive

Multi-format archive and compression library

Maintainers

• The Core Planners: [email protected]

Type of Package

Library package

Use as Dependency

Library packages can be set as runtime or build time dependencies, however they are typically used as buildtime dependencies. See Defining your dependencies for more information.

To add core/libarchive as a depdendency, you can add one of the following to your plan file.

Buildtime Dependency

pkg_build_deps=(core/libarchive)

Runtime Depdendency

pkg_deps=(core/libarchive)

Use as Library

Installation

To install this plan, you should run the following commands to install it.

hab pkg install core/libarchive

» Installing core/libarchive

☁ Determining latest version of core/libarchive in the 'stable' channel

→ Using core/libarchive/3.4.2/20200504153654

★ Install of core/libarchive/3.4.2/20200504153654 complete with 0 new packages installed.

Viewing library files

To view the library files you must first search for them with habitat.

hab pkg path core/libarchive

/hab/pkgs/core/libarchive/3.4.2/20200504153654

ls /hab/pkgs/core/libarchive/3.4.2/20200504153654

bin/

include/

lib/

share/

Additional Notes

Although libarchive is listed here as a library, a bin folder exists and contains executable binaries, however as these are not binlinked at install time, it has been clasified as a library plan.

Binaries included within the bin/ directory are tested.