What is “szip” Package?

Implementation of extended-Rice lossless compression algorithm
For more details: https://support.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/release/obtain5.html#extlibs

Installation

• Open Terminal by pressing command+space then type terminal and hit Enter key.
• Install homebrew first.

  ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)" < /dev/null 2> /dev/null

• Install szip.

  brew install szip

Now, use szip!