engrampa
A file archiver for MATE (by mate-desktop)
p7zip
A new p7zip fork with additional codecs and improvements (forked from https://sourceforge.net/projects/sevenzip/ AND https://sourceforge.net/projects/p7zip/). (by p7zip-project)
engrampa | p7zip | |
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3 | 13 | |
102 | 737 | |
2.9% | 1.4% | |
7.1 | 0.0 | |
12 days ago | 7 months ago | |
C | C | |
GNU General Public License v3.0 only | - |
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engrampa
Posts with mentions or reviews of engrampa.
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TIL there's a fork of the unmaintained p7zip port of 7-Zip
The p7zip port of 7-Zip is several releases behind and the project seems to be abandoned. I discovered this when a large archive failed to extract with Engrampa which uses it. It reported a "Headers Error" which is due to a compatibility problem between zip format implementations. 7-Zip has a fix but the port doesn't. But there's a fork on GitHub which is being actively maintained. Check it out.
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I made a terminal utility to monitor some system stats. Was wondering if you guys know of anything better or if I should continue dev work on it since we need it?
Linux mint mate has something called "System Monitor" that is a running graphical plot of system activity. http://www.mate-desktop.org It is by the Mate developers. Very nice. It is similar to the windows monitor.
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What compression tool you mainly use?
I use Engrampa. Which archive format I use depends on the use case. For example, if Windows users are involved, I usually use Rar archives. Under Linux, I usually use tar.xz.
p7zip
Posts with mentions or reviews of p7zip.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-20.
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Ubuntu 23.04 (Lunar Lobster)
nearly every main distro I am aware of has both available. The reason you still see p7zip is because the CLI incompatibilities vs the newer 7z/7zip executables and the general licensing issues. Most users of "old p7zip" are actually using the actively maintained https://github.com/p7zip-project/p7zip which is updated, supporting unix permissions and zstd and so on.
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7-zip 22.00 – APFS, Posix TAR, high precision timestamps
Thank you for pointing this out! This is the source of much confusion. Although Arch for example uses https://github.com/jinfeihan57/p7zip which seems to be reasonably maintained?
- Ark and 7-zip
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Replace p7zip with upstream 7-Zip
Then you can compile p7zip from source: $ mkdir p7zip-git $ cd p7zip-git $ git clone https://github.com/jinfeihan57/p7zip .
- Don't Use RAR
- TIL there's a fork of the unmaintained p7zip port of 7-Zip
- I can't compress in 7zip with Ark and p7zip
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will arch replace p7zip with normal 7-zip?
April 4th was the latest release. Had some commits in May. I think it is active.
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Why is 7z so outdated?
I think the point is, the '7z' at 17.04 available in Arch Linux's repo is actually p7zip, the development of which is independent of 7-zip. So comparison of the version number is meaningless (if I am right). Also, p7zip 17.04 is released in April this year, not 2017, according to its release page
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7-Zip 21.0 alpha introduces native Linux support
this comment might clarify that.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing engrampa and p7zip you can also consider the following projects:
grafterm - Metrics dashboards on terminal (a grafana inspired terminal version)
7-Zip-zstd - 7-Zip with support for Brotli, Fast-LZMA2, Lizard, LZ4, LZ5 and Zstandard
bottom - Yet another cross-platform graphical process/system monitor.
NanaZip - The 7-Zip derivative intended for the modern Windows experience
pbzip2
7z - Because 7-zip source code was in a 7z archive [mirror]
s-tui - Terminal-based CPU stress and monitoring utility
libarchive - Multi-format archive and compression library
mediactl - Media controls for Linux, powered by MPRIS via D-Bus
fast-lzma2 - Fast LZMA2 Library
sysstat - Performance monitoring tools for Linux
precomp-cpp - Precomp, C++ version - further compress already compressed files