7zip is a file archiver that archives with high compression ratios. It handles 7z, ZIP, GZIP, Brotli, BZIP2, XZ, TAR, APM, ARJ, CAB, CHM, CPIO, CramFS, DEB, DMG, FAT, HFS, ISO, Lizard, LZ5, LZFSE, LZH, LZMA, LZMA2, MBR, MSI, MSLZ, NSIS, NTFS, RAR, RPM, SquashFS, UDF, VHD, WIM, XAR, Z, and Zstd formats.
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Download (HTTP): https://github.com/ip7z/7zip/archive/25.01/7zip-25.01.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 0f820e4e77bd0fe6a1145e01a23fd886
Download size: 2.1 MB
Estimated disk space required: 38 MB
Estimated build time: 1.4 SBU
Install 7zip by running the following commands:
(for i in Bundles/{Alone,Alone7z,Format7zF,SFXCon} UI/Console; do
make -C CPP/7zip/$i -f ../../cmpl_gcc.mak || exit
done)
This package does not have a test suite.
Now, as the root user:
install -vDm755 CPP/7zip/Bundles/Alone{/b/g/7za,7z/b/g/7zr} \
CPP/7zip/Bundles/Format7zF/b/g/7z.so \
CPP/7zip/UI/Console/b/g/7z \
-t /usr/lib/7zip/ &&
install -vm755 CPP/7zip/Bundles/SFXCon/b/g/7zCon \
/usr/lib/7zip/7zCon.sfx &&
(for i in 7z 7za 7zr; do
cat > /usr/bin/$i << EOF || exit
#!/bin/sh
exec /usr/lib/7zip/$i "\$@"
EOF
chmod 755 /usr/bin/$i || exit
done) &&
cp -rv DOC -T /usr/share/doc/7zip-25.01