It's likely that you've at least heard of 7-Zip somewhere in your travels because it's been around since 1999. It's licensed under the GNU LPGL and other licenses. This means that you'll have to type some 7z commands into a command prompt.7-Zip is a free, open source, cross-platform compression and encryption utility that neither requires registration or any kind of payment to use, even in a commercial environment. Other than the method mentioned above, Linux doesn't yet provide a GUI that graphical exposes all of 7zip's features. Advanced Features - Using 7zip's Command Line Utility Click the "Create" button.Īlso, you can view the contents of any 7z file by simply double-clicking it.
7z file by simply: (1) right-clicking it (2) selecting "Create Archive" from the context menu (3) name the output file (4) select 7z from the drop-down-menu and (5). Now, 7-zip will be downloaded and installed.Ĭreate and View 7zip files with Ubuntu's "Archive Manager" (file-roller)Īfter, installing 7zip, you'll be able compress any file or folder into a.
This will bring up Ubuntu's applications manager.
In short, I don't zip or Rar files anymore I 7zip them! 7zip is a free, open source, cross platform, software used to archive and compress files (or hierarchies of files) into a single file or into a series of files with a user-specified size limit.ħzip will unRar rar files (reassemble them and extract their original contents), and 7zip supports file-splitting using its own (nonRar) format.ħzip supports all the major "archive and compression" file-types you'd want to create or view, plus it provides its own lossless compression type (7z) that I've come to prefer.
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