What is the difference between .deb and .tar.lz?
- Extension
- .deb
- .tar.lz
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Compressed
- Developer
- Debian Project
- Lzip
- 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.
- "Tarball" (.TAR file) compressed with Lzip, a lossless data compressor based on the LZMA (Lempel-Ziv-Markov chain) algorithm, and therefore uses the compound file extension ".tar.lz;" often used for distributing linux software packages.
- MIME Type
- application/x-debian-package
- application/x-lzip-compressed-tar
- Wikipedia
- .deb on Wikipedia
- .tar.lz on Wikipedia