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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Development versions of BLFS may not build or run some packages properly if LFS or dependencies have been updated since the most recent stable versions of the books.
Download (HTTP): https://github.com/ip7z/7zip/archive/24.09/7zip-24.09.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 41d0d31a3b0e39a1cbd848c10574fb0b
Download size: 2.1 MB
Estimated disk space required: 39 MB
Estimated build time: 2.3 SBU (with tests)
Install 7zip by running the following commands:
for i in Bundles/{Alone,Alone7z,Format7zF,SFXCon} UI/Console; do
make -C CPP/7zip/$i -f ../../cmpl_gcc.mak
done
This package does not have a test suite.
Now, as the root user:
install -vDm755 CPP/7zip/Bundles/Alone{/b/g/7za,7z/b/g/7zr} \
CPP/7zip/Bundles/Format7zF/b/g/7z.so \
CPP/7zip/UI/Console/b/g/7z \
-t /usr/lib/7zip/ &&
install -vm755 CPP/7zip/Bundles/SFXCon/b/g/7zCon \
/usr/lib/7zip/7zCon.sfx &&
(for i in 7z 7za 7zr; do
cat > /usr/bin/$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-24.09