# Install lunzip with Homebrew, apt, MacPorts

Decompressor for lzip files. Version 1.16 via Homebrew; verified 2026-06-29. Also installable with debian: sudo apt install lunzip.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:lunzip
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install lunzip
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

- MacPorts (94%):

```sh
sudo port install lunzip
```

  Evidence: MacPorts ports tree: archivers/lunzip/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1

### Linux

- Debian apt (92%):

```sh
sudo apt install lunzip
```

  Evidence: Debian stable package indexes: lunzip from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:lunzip
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 1.16
- **Source summary:** Decompressor for lzip files
- **Homepage:** <https://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lunzip.html>
- **Last updated:** 2026-06-29T19:23:20-04:00
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- lunzip (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 1.16
## Project history and usage

Lunzip is a small decompressor for lzip files. The official lzip project pages position it as a decompression-only member of the lzip tool family.

### Project history

Lunzip is part of Antonio Diaz Diaz's lzip ecosystem and is distributed through the NonGNU/Savannah release infrastructure. Upstream release listings show tarballs beginning at least with Lunzip 1.4 in 2013 and continuing through Lunzip 1.16 in 2026.

The tool exists for systems and workflows that need lzip extraction without shipping the full compressor. The official lzip manual provides format and tool-family context for Lunzip, lzip, and lziprecover.

### Adoption history

The supplied package metadata lists Lunzip in Homebrew, Debian, MacPorts, and Ubuntu, reflecting its role as a small Unix-style utility distributed next to lzip, lziprecover, tar, and related archive tools.

### How it is used

Users run Lunzip to decompress `.lz` files and to feed uncompressed tar data into tools such as tar. Its package role is extraction-focused rather than configuration-driven, so no official config or credentials file is documented.

### Why package nerds care

Lunzip matters to package maintainers as the decompression-only lzip utility for bootstrap, installer, recovery, and minimal-system scenarios. It is useful when a system needs reliable extraction but not compression.

### Timeline

- 2013-09-27: Savannah release index lists Lunzip 1.4 tarballs.
- 2018-02-06: Savannah release index lists Lunzip 1.10 tarballs.
- 2024-01-24: Savannah release index lists Lunzip 1.14 tarballs.
- 2025-01-11: Savannah release index lists Lunzip 1.15 tarballs.
- 2026-03-09: Savannah release index lists Lunzip 1.16 tarballs.

### Related projects

- Related projects include lzip, lziprecover, tar, and zutils, all part of or adjacent to the lzip archive-tool ecosystem.

### Sources

- <https://download-mirror.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/lunzip/>
- <https://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lunzip.html>
- <https://www.nongnu.org/lzip/manual/lzip_manual.html>
- source_facts.package-manager


## Security Notes

broad file, network, media, or database tool signal.

- **Geiger risk:** blue / medium
- broad file, network, media, or database tool signal

## Other Package-Manager Records

- Debian apt - lunzip - 1.15-3: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: lunzip from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | data compressor based on the LZMA algorithm (decompressor) | http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lunzip.html
- Ubuntu apt - lunzip - 1.14-1: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: lunzip from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | data compressor based on the LZMA algorithm (decompressor) | http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lunzip.html
- MacPorts - lunzip: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: archivers/lunzip/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/lunzip.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/lunzip.yml)


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph