[Request] PeaZip or FreeArc to repositories

[ormu]

I'm searching for a good archiver program for LMDE but it seems there aren't any, at least in the official repositories...

-File-roller Thunar integration is buggy, and it wants to install Nautilus and other extra stuff which I don't want.

-Xarchiver has bad support for 7z format and the direct extraction sometimes acts weirdly.

-Ark needs lots of KDE dependencies and it doesn't support all encryption features of 7z.

...and because there is no official Linux GUI for 7-zip I'm looking at PeaZip or FreeArc, but neither of them is included in the repositories. Would it be possible to add them? I could try to compile them myself but how does Thunar integration work then?

[Brian49]

Xarchiver handles 7z fine here, provided you also have the package p7zip-full installed. Keep in mind that Xarchiver is essentially a front-end for whatever specific compression formats you have on your system. Also, I haven't noticed any bugginess in direct extraction with it.

[ormu]

Also, I haven't noticed any bugginess in direct extraction with it.

This happened when I tried to extract a deb package to a folder which didn't exist. Xarchiver didn't create the folder, it extracted it to the home folder instead. With zips there are no such problems.

Xarchiver handles 7z fine here, provided you also have the package p7zip-full installed. Keep in mind that Xarchiver is essentially a front-end for whatever specific compression formats you have on your system.

p7zip-full is installed. I created a 7z package of two files (one text file, one png image) via the context menu (right click -> create archive...) and then opened it in Xarchiver - here's the result:

http://i.imgur.com/ip7WL.png

With ZIPs there's again no such problems but sometimes I need 7z. Also, I haven't found a way to create encrypted 7z archives.


The source code of PeaZip is available so it would be nice to have it in the repos.


edit: I searched a bit more and noticed that FreeArc has much less features than Peazip so it isn't that useful...

[Brian49]

Evidently you do more things with compression and extraction than I do, which is why I haven't noticed the problems.

The PeaZip website has Debian packages available for download. Why not give those a try?

[ormu]

The PeaZip website has Debian packages available for download. Why not give those a try?

Oops, I thought those would only work on 32bit systems but the "all architectures" package seems to work fine (ia32-libs is needed). Not as convenient as the official 7-zip GUI but still sufficient. Thunar integration isn't supported but that's not a big problem.