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@archivetoolstracker Is there any GUI available to go with 7zip commands ? I know command line is better, but I'm a noob so I really want GUI.

Trit’Jan 4

@HakenTrigger Sur Linux ? N’importe quel logiciel d’archivage en GUI (comme File-Roller, par exemple) permet de gérer des archives en 7z si 7-Zip est installé.

🐧DaveNull🐧 ☣️pResident Evil☣Jan 4

@TritTriton Ou XArchiver, installé par défaut dans des bureaux GTK

Je connais moins bien les environnements de bureaux QT récents, mais je suppose qu'il ya quelque chose de similaire de préinstallé.

@HakenTrigger

@devnull @TritTriton En vrai visiblement PeaZip utilise 7zip (malgré tout ce que je trouve sur son usage de p7zip), donc je vais continuer avec.

@HakenTrigger You are talking to my bot @archivetoolstracker but I happened to notice it so I will reply.

You want PeaZip. 😉

@ruari I didn't see it is a bot ^'

Oh, PeaZip uses it ? Everywhere I search I read it uses p7zip... I think I'll explore it more. Thanks !

@HakenTrigger PeaZip does not use standalone 7zz or the older 7za executables. Instead, it uses the 7‑Zip codebase directly as backend libraries, calling them as part of its internal architecture.

@HakenTrigger The project seems well maintained AFAIK and should be pretty up to date. 👍

@ruari OK, began to use it for some complex archives some time ago (the included Mint archive explorer have some problems), so I'll continue ! Thanks !

@HakenTrigger Yeah the warning (which I did manually write so that my bot [which is a tracker but I only started running yesterday] had a baseline post) was really just about the command line tool(s) provided by the p7zip package which has not been updated in years.

Other utilities that use 7-Zip code like 7-Zip themselves or archivers like PeaZip or NanaZip (windows) or Keka (macOS) are all likely fine. It is just p7zip that is now abandoned.

@ruari OK, thanks for all of this ! I'm pretty new to Linux (migrated 1 year ago on my laptop, gaming PC still on Windows because of Windows Store games) so I'm often confused about some things, like documentations not always up to date or lack of GUI for a lot of things (and often "just use commands duh" as answers) !

https://peazip.github.io/peazip-command-line.html

@HakenTrigger No problem using graphical tools if that is what you feel comfortable with. Do what works for you!

P.S. I should clarify one point I made earlier. While PeaZIP does not use 7-Zip command line tools directly, it does have a feature that could cause you to use them:

This gives you a command line that is equivalent to some GUI action you have done to setup your own scripts.

if you use those generated command lines, you are then using 7-Zip (or p7zip). 😉

PeaZip command line use, batch scripting syntax examples

How to use PeaZip programmatically from command line, create CLI scripts, automate batch schedule compression / extraction tasks from GUI. 7Z TAR RAR ZIP syntax console shell examples

PeaZip file archiver utility, free RAR ZIP software

🐧DaveNull🐧 ☣️pResident Evil☣Jan 4

@HakenTrigger

Pro tip: In terms of what tool uses what library or other tool, don't just trust what you read on blogs and forums as it might become outdated info when things change.

Look at the dependencies and/or recommended packages and/or package description in your distro's package manager/repo website, for your currently installed and/or (if different) latest stable version of your distro (if the software you're looking at is packaged for your distro, of course)

@ruari

@devnull Yep that is a great tip! 👍

@HakenTrigger Also not all distros are equal in maintaining these kind of things. But all the big, well established distros will likely be doing a reasonable job.

Trit’15h ago

@archivetoolstracker @ruari 7-Zip 26.01 is released.