What is the difference between .deb and .gzip?
- Extension
- .deb
- .gzip
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Compressed
- Developer
- Debian Project
- GNU
- Description
- A DEB file is a standard Unix archive that contains two bzipped or gzipped archives, one for the installer control information and another for the actual installable data. DEB files are often used for software installation packages.
- A compressed file format associated with GNU Zip (Gzip) that uses the DEFLATE compression algorithm, a combination of both the Huffman coding and the Lempel-Ziv (LZ77) codec.
- MIME Type
- application/x-debian-package
- application/x-gzip
- Wikipedia
- .deb on Wikipedia
- .gzip on Wikipedia