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    On Debian Squeeze (which has OpenSSL 0.9.8) there is zlib-flate in the qpdf package. It can be used like zlib-flate -uncompress < FILE.
    – Tino
    Commented Sep 16, 2012 at 14:09
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    zlib got removed from the latest versions of OpenSSL so this tip is is very helpful @Tino Commented Dec 2, 2014 at 10:59
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    Thanks. This solution provides a better experience in decompressing short input files than the answer using "gzip" ("openssl" decompressed as much as it could while "gzip" aborted printing "unexpected end of file").
    – Daniel K.
    Commented Sep 16, 2015 at 10:01
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    @Tino this should be a separate answer
    – Catskul
    Commented Nov 1, 2015 at 3:16
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    @Tino, it is also available via the package qpdf on Fedora 23. Alexandr Kurilin, zlib is still available in 1.0.2d-fips. Commented Nov 24, 2015 at 8:37