7z on LINUX

[KevinO]

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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
Yes 7z, This older Mdk 10.0 system I just checked has it installed from a
pre-built package.... So does a Mandriva 2006 system. Linux packages are out there.

If you are stuck, perhaps I could decompress it for you.

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