7zip (solved)

[ptmb]

I like more 7zip than Ark, so I installed 7zip from Adept, but there is no K menu entry for it. I don't know the command to start it. Can someone help me?

[jankushka]

Re: 7zip

supposing the name of the package is 7zip

sudo dpkg-query -L 7zip

will tell you all the files that have been installed by that package.
executables normally reside in /usr/bin.
hth

[Snowhog]

Re: 7zip

Google searches show that 7-Zip (not 7zip) is a Windows archive program, not a Linux package. If in fact you downloaded/installed (did it actually install?) 7-Zip, it isn't going to work.

p7zip is a quick port of 7z.exe and 7za.exe (command line version of 7zip) also found by a Google search. Sourceforge has a link to this package at:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/p7zip/

[Teunis]

Re: 7zip

Not too fast Snowhog!
The Linux version of 7-Zip is in the Universe repository as p7zip.

[Snowhog]

Re: 7zip

Which is exactly what I pointed out in my second paragraph.

[disturbedite]

Re: 7zip

just to clarify, there isn't an official frontend (gui) for p7zip. you might be able to find some with a google search, but i don't use one.

[Snowhog]

Re: 7zip

My initial response was based on the possibility that ptmb *might* have downloaded/installed the Windows program. Of course, if I have been just a tad more observant, I would have noted that he did say he used Adept to get the package. My bad.

p7zip (as a debian 'unstable' package) can also be downloaded from:

http://packages.debian.org/unstable/utils/p7zip

[Rog131]

Re: 7zip

Package name is p7zip -> starting as p7zip

More man p7zip:

NAME
7-Zip - A file archiver with highest compression ratio

SYNOPSIS
p7zip [-d] [-h|--help] [file]
-h print this help
-d decompress file

And :

p7zip-full provides 7z and 7za which handles more compression formats.

and front-end xarchive (man xarchive):

NAME
XArchive - a gtk2.0 front-end for various command line archivers.

Currently there are bash shell wrappers for:

tar using tar, bzip2, gzip, and compress

rar using rar, or unrar(unrar only cannot modify rar’s)

zip using unzip, zipinfo(from unzip), and zip

ace using unace (extraction only)

7zip using 7za from p7zip

arj using arj

rpm using rpm and cpio (extract only, use appropriate packing tools
to modify)

deb using dpkg-deb from dpkg (extract only, use appropriate tools to
modify)

[Skydancer]

Re: 7zip

I use 7-Zip all the time in conjunction with Krusader. There is a Krusader script which allows you to pack or unpack .7z archives. When in terminal I use these two commands:
- pack (optimized, high compression rate):

7za a -t7z -m0=lzma -mx=9 -mfb=64 -md=32m -ms=on archive_name.7z /source_directory_to_pack

-unpack:

7za e example.7z

[SheeEttin]

Re: 7zip

Seven posts, and only one partial answer.

If you want a GUI, you need the xarchive package.

[ptmb]

Re: 7zip

Ok, thanks. I thought that the 7-zip package in adept was the same program 7zip, for windows. The no GUI part isn't very nice. Thanks.