Shawn Dowler wrote:
> 2007/6/24, Vaughn Treude <vltreude@deru.com>:
>> KevinO wrote:
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>>> Vaughn Treude wrote:
>>>> Hello all:
>>>> I recently had the misfortune to download an archive with 7z format.  I
>>>> can't find anything that does that sort of decompression in Linux.  On
>>>> 7zip's source-forge page, there's some nonsense about using Wine to run
>>>> their Windows version, but as far as I'm concerned, that's a ridiculous
>>>> kludgie way of doing things that should be avoided if at all possible.
>>>> Somebody must make a 7z decoder runs on Linux, right?  It's just that
>>>> every time I do a Google search I get all this Windows crap!  I was able
>>>> to download some source which CLAIMS to compile on Linux but the
>>>> makefile is totally in a Windows format.  Heck, I might be willing to
>>>> port it, but I'm not going to reinvent somebody else's wheel.  So does
>>>> anybody know of a real Linux app that does this?
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Vaughn
> 
> What distro are you using?  If it helps, the package might be called
> p7zip.  It's a command line only app, and the actual command is "7z x
> filename.7z"  If you let us know which distro it is, we could probably
> supply you with a location to download the packages.
> 

Thanks to everyone who pointed out p7zip.  For some reason my Google 
searches did not turn this one up.  I don't have it on my system, but 
I'm sure I can find it now.

Vaughn

> If you want to compile from source, then you have to probably edit the
> makefile by hand, and run "make all2" then the install.sh script.  It
> should work, but if you can get a package for your distro, all the
> better :)
> 
> Shawn Dowler
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