Beyond Linux® From Scratch (System V Edition) - Version r12.2-652

Chapter 12. System Utilities

p7zip-17.04

Introduction to p7zip

p7zip is the Unix command-line port of 7-Zip, 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.

Package Information

Additional Downloads

p7zip Dependencies

Optional

wxWidgets

Installation of p7zip

First, fix several security vulnerabilities: 

patch -Np1 -i ../p7zip-17.04-consolidated_fixes-1.patch

Next, prevent p7zip from installing compressed manual pages: 

sed '/^gzip/d' -i install.sh

Install p7zip by running the following commands: 

make all3

To test the results, issue: make test.

Now, as the root user: 

make DEST_HOME=/usr \
     DEST_MAN=/usr/share/man \
     DEST_SHARE_DOC=/usr/share/doc/p7zip-17.04 install
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If using DESTDIR techniques, use DEST_DIR instead.

Contents

Installed Programs: 7z, 7za, and 7zr
Installed Libraries: None
Installed Directory: /usr/lib/p7zip and /usr/share/doc/p7zip-17.04

Short Descriptions

7z

is a file archiver utility

7za

is a stand-alone executable handling less archive formats than 7z

7zr

is a minimal version of 7za that handles only 7z archives