On 08/30/2017 07:57 AM, James H. H. Lampert wrote: > I know that the tradition for Linux is GZipped tarballs, but I also know > that, at least from the Gnome desktop, I can open a PKZip-compatible Zip > file, and create a (presumably also) PKZip-compatible Zip file. > > I don't, however, see a way to do so from the command line (or within a > script) without doing an apt-get to install the zip package (and > presumably also the unzip package). > > Can somebody explain this? It seems a bit puzzling. > > -- > JHHL >
File-roller, the gnome archive utility, depends on p7zip-full, which provides support for quite a few formats. If you want to work with these from the terminal, the pz7ip* packages provide various binaries like 7z, 7za, 7zr, and p7zip, which all do similar but slightly different things. List of supported formats: (in p7zip-full) * Packing / unpacking: 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2, XZ and TAR * Unpacking only: APM, ARJ, CAB, CHM, CPIO, CramFS, DEB, DMG, FAT, HFS, ISO, LZH, LZMA, LZMA2, MBR, MSI, MSLZ, NSIS, NTFS, RAR (only if non-free p7zip-rar package is installed), RPM, SquashFS, UDF, VHD, WIM, XAR and Z.
