Comment 0 for bug 602671

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Onno Steenbergen (osteenbergen) wrote :

Description:
"p7zip is the Unix port of 7-Zip, a file archiver that archives with very high compression ratios.

p7zip-full provides:
- /usr/bin/7za a standalone version of the 7-zip tool that handles 7z achives (implementation of the LZMA compression algorithm) and some other formats.
- /usr/bin/7z not only does it handle 7z but also ZIP,.... and DEB archives. 7z compression is 30-50% better than ZIP compression

p7zip provides 7zr, a light version of 7za, and p7zip a gzip like wrapper around 7zr."

Nerdy and not mentioning that the archive utility can be used as a GUI to extract the archive. It only mentions commandline tools.

"p7zip-full provides" is the package name and this should just be 7zip (the title on top) or 'This software"