Are there any popular and maintained 7zip equivalents lately? <Solved>

[alkanshel]

I know mint comes with a CLI equivalent of 7zip, but a GUI would be nice.
If possible, a rightclick menu option to "Extract to folder..." would be ideal. The only option there right now is "Extract here"

[Maxwell-J]

have you seen PeaZip ?

https://peazip.github.io/peazip-linux.html

[alkanshel]

Hello, you're right, it seems peazip does have a context menu option

https://peazip.github.io/screenshots-peazip-3.html

My only other concern with it is that it isn't available through synaptic by default, so I figured I would have to uninstall it for the next OS upgrade. But seems like it's recognized in synaptic now. I won't have to uninstall it to use the mint updater next time, right?

[billyswong]

In Caja, the file browser for LM Mate, there is a "Extract To..." if I right click a zip file (or 7z file, or any other archive format). Nemo in LM Cinnamon don't have that???

Suggestion: Feature request it in https://github.com/linuxmint/nemo-extensions/issues

[Maxwell-J]

In Caja, the file browser for LM Mate, there is a "Extract To..." if I right click a zip file (or 7z file, or any other archive format). Nemo in LM Cinnamon don't have that???

Suggestion: Feature request it in https://github.com/linuxmint/nemo-extensions/issues

pretty easy to create the action yourself .......

see what shawon_ had to say 2 years ago viewtopic.php?p=1897235#p1897235

[alkanshel]

After a little while working with Peazip, I have to admit I'm not really satisfied with it

* Basic window cascading with superkey doesn't work
* Can't select all and drag the files anywhere--the selection is lost as soon as you click it again
* There's no rightclick context menu.. instead right-clicking takes you to some other unrelated view

I primarily need something that can handle password-protected archives (default manager can't open them) so I'll still be using this out of necessity, but I gotta wonder if there are any other options.

[t42]

It is unclear what OS are you using, archive managers in are different all three DE.

[MiZoG]

Default archive managers offer almost the same functionality in all 3 DEs.
And it is limited compared to what you can do with the most common utilities on Windows like the win version of 7zip for example.
Pea-zip could have been a solution to this problem but both its GTK n Qt gui are found... wanting.

Anyway, password-protected files are surely supported if you install the proper dependencies, i.e unrar (nonfree), p7zip-full, p7zip-rar etc.
Password-protected zip files are supported OOB.

[t42]

unrar (nonfree)

not relevant, but you need p7zip-full, p7zip-rar

[Petermint]

LM 21 Cinnamon. Both File Manager and Archive Manager have .7z listed among all the formats they handle. They also have .tar.7z for directories.

[alkanshel]

So it seems like for peazip there isn't really an option to have a menu shortcut that extracts to the current directory. In fact peazip is GUI-only, it doesn't even have a man page. If I call it with a shortcut and pass a file, peazip will just open it normally.

So now my goal (and I'm not sure how it'll work with passwording) is to set up a menu option that calls p7zip and extracts the files to the current directory. But it doesn't work currently. Here is my shortcut script

[Nemo Action]
Active=true
Name=Extract here
Comment=Extract to the current directory.
Exec=p7zip -d %F
Selection=notnone
Extensions=zip;7z;ar;cbz;cpio;exe;iso;jar;tar;tar.Z;tar.bz2;tar.gz;tar.lz;tar.lzma;tar.xz;rar;
Quote=double

It seems like I'm between a rock and a hard place with these two options, but then again I am not terribly creative.

It is unclear what OS are you using, archive managers in are different all three DE.

I'm using cinnamon

LM 21 Cinnamon. Both File Manager and Archive Manager have .7z listed among all the formats they handle. They also have .tar.7z for directories.

My problem with archive manager is that it doesn't handle password-protected archives

[mikeflan]

My problem with archive manager is that it doesn't handle password-protected archives

Really? It does for me.
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[billyswong]

My problem with archive manager is that it doesn't handle password-protected archives

Cinnamon's archive manager comes from Gnome. I found a bug report that looks similar to your issue. https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/file-roller/-/issues/142

I am running LM 21 Mate in my computer. I test the "problematic ZIP archive" attached in that bug report. The extraction process is smooth and bug-free. The archive manager in Mate is called engrampa. Engrampa does have a man page and allows command line operations.

[alkanshel]

Thanks for letting me know about that bug, as it is the same error message I was seeing. I did find a fix, my problem with the passwords was due to my not having p7zip-rar

unrar (nonfree)

not relevant, but you need p7zip-full, p7zip-rar

Now that I can use that one, the context menu option is working properly. My needs are met, I uninstalled peazip. Thank you everybody!

[alkanshel]

In Caja, the file browser for LM Mate, there is a "Extract To..." if I right click a zip file (or 7z file, or any other archive format). Nemo in LM Cinnamon don't have that???

Suggestion: Feature request it in https://github.com/linuxmint/nemo-extensions/issues

pretty easy to create the action yourself .......

see what shawon_ had to say 2 years ago viewtopic.php?p=1897235#p1897235

I forgot to mention specifically, this worked great for the default archive manager.