Requirements
Bloat requires that you have the following utilities to use it to its full potential (however you can run bloat with as few utilities installed as you like):
Ar (part of binutils)
An archive format generally used to bundle libraries together.
[ Official Site | Web Search ]
BZip2
BZip2 has superior compression to GNU zip in most cases, and is being used more frequently.
[ Official Site | Web Search ]
GNU tar
Tar is a very commonly used format, and it is almost vital that you have it.
[ Official Site | Web Search ]
GNU Zip
Tar/Gzip is one of the most commonly used archive formats.
[ Official Site | Web Search (alternate) ]
LHA
An old compression format.
[ LHA Utility Download | Web Search ]
MSCompress
Needed if you intend to work with files compressed with Microsoft's compress utility.
[ Unofficial Download Server | Web Search ]
p7zip
p7zip is a *nix port of 7za.exe, the 7-zip command-line interface, used to extract 7-zip files.
[ Official Site | Web Search ]
Pax
A compression format, required for extracting RPMs. NOTE: bloat only works with pax 1 and pax 3.
[ Unofficial Download Server | Web Search ]
RPM
A package manager, used by Red Hat, Fedora and Mandrake, amongst others. You will most likely already have this.
[ Official Download Site | Web Search ]
umod
UmodPack is a utility to manipulate Unreal/Unreal Tournament modification files. If you want to extract .umod files, you'll need umod from UmodPack.
[ Official Site | Web Search ]
UnACE
Ace is a compression format, primarily used on Windows. Do not let the URL put you off; it does contain a Linux download.
[ Official Site | Web Search ]
UnARJ
An old DOS compression format.
[ Unofficial Download Server | Web Search ]
UnRAR
A not-so-widely-used commercial compression method, with superior compression to zip.
[ Official Site | Web Search ]
Unzip
A very commonly used compression/archive format on Windows/DOS.
[ InfoZIP Unzip | Web Search ]
uz2unpack
uz2unpack is a fast utility for extracting compressed UT2004/UT2003 (.uz2) files.
[ Unofficial Binary Download | Unofficial Source Download | Web Search ]
