Re: 7z on LINUX

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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