Install Peazip

[Juan Navarro]

Please note thaton current version of MicrosoftSmartScreen, newpackages of PeaZip (likewise manyother software packages) may be reported as possibly harmful software.
The only solution for this issue is to proceed with installation anyway(with "more info" or other version-specific links in SmartScreen) andpossibly to help fighting false positives reporting the software assafe to Microsoft.
SmartScreen is a "reputation based" filter solely based onpopularity of a package, and itsrating is not presently influenced by quality factors as the softwarebeing published on a safe domain(including Microsoft-own ones like GitHub), supported by reputable package managers(including Microsoft winget) and reportedassafe by antivirus (including Microsoft ones...).

Unfortunately, there is no PeaZip package in the default Ubuntu repositories, but there are several ways to install it. Here I will describe the two methods that I think are the easiest and better in my opinion.

The benefit of this method is that it is a straightforward way to install PeaZip, if you are familiar with software installation in Ubuntu/Linux. The downside is that you'll have to manually repeat the installation procedure to install a new version of PeaZip.

Depending on the desktop environment you use (or your personal preference), click either the DEB GTK2 link (suggested for GTK-based environments, such as GNOME, XFCE, Cinnamon, Unity, etc.) or the DEB Qt5 link (suggested for Qt-based environments, such as KDE, LXQt, etc.) and download the .deb package of your choice to the location of your choice.

The downside of this method is that you have to go through some additional procedure to install Flatpak (if you haven't already). The benefit is that the package can be easily updated to a newer version by running in a terminal flatpak update (which by the way will also update all your other Flatpak apps) and you will also get access to the Flathub repository (which is great in my opinion).

Synopsis: Download pageof PeaZip for Darwin / macOS. Open Source archive manager app, freewareWinRar and WinZip alternative utility for Apple macOS machines. Openand extract 7Z, RAR, TAR, ZIP files on Mac systems. How toinstall and run PeaZip on macOS. How to compile PeaZip for Darwin /macOS, both M1 Apple Siliconaarch64 and Intel x86_64 architectures.

I want to install PeaZip for a specific purpose, which I can't fulfill with any other archive manager. I downloaded and installed it by using both dpkg -i & Gdebi. Now I can't start it, because I can't find the launcher. Please provide a solution.

For some reason some of the older GTK debs are configured for the KDE desktop. They include a desktop icon, but install it to the KDE directories. I fixed this by just linking the desktop file in the correct directory.

PeaZip 9.8.0 brings new Themes, improved flat mode (optionally display all archive's content at once), and adds the ability to directly extract all or selected items to any path in bookmarks, history or breadcrumb without further confirmation.

Direct extraction is implemented in "Extract to" group of app's context menu, and it is also available in as command line switches for scripts and for system integration (context menus, SendTo items, .desktop files, Automator scripts).

PeaZip 9.7.0 release is primarily meant to update app's foundations: sources are now built with Lazarus 3.0, Windows dark mode is now fully supported, and a native Linux aarch64 version is now available.

PeaZip 9.6.0 introduces Profiles to separately store all configuration data (including preferences, bookmarks, custom apps, password manager, etc) for different users, or for different purposes, or to easily export the profile to another machine.
The application comes with enhanced GUI - with new optional compact sidebar, better smart sorting, new tab styles - and many under the hood improvements as improved extraction, and better handling of ARC files, and of archives containing errors in TOC.
This release also improves the ability to self-check the integrity of its binaries, including also libraries (.dll, .so, etc) and sfx modules.

UPDATE: peazip_portable-9.6.0.LINUX.GTK2.aarch64.tar.gz is now available for aarch64 Linux systems. This is the first native build targeting this architecture, please report any issue and suggestion to improve the package for the future releases.

PeaZip 9.4.0 introduces support for adding, editing, and removing archive-level comments in RAR and ZIP/ZIPX files, interactively (Alt+M) and from batch scripts, on single or multiple archives at once even of mixed types.

It is now possible to directly add files and folders to archives in Brotli, BZip2, GZip, TAR, WIM, XZ, Zstd, and Zpaq formats (from command line, Automator scripts, .desktop files, and context menu items), and it was updated the (peazip)/res/share/batch folder containing scripting and system integration examples.

PeaZip 9.3.0 improves the archive / file manager, adding the ability to display file-level comments in archives, and showing if current archive type can be edited.
Free space is now checked before archiving and extraction tasks.
It is now possible to manually set the Rar.exe or equivalent binary for RAR creation, to improve support for that function on Wine and other non-Windows based alternatives.
7z backend is updated to 23.01, and Pea to 1.13 release.
Themes are improved with new Contrast setting, and being now able to customize icons for archive types.

PeaZip 9.2.0 improves the GUI with more customization options for address bar and tab bar, and re-organizes support section, with easier access to online resources, documentation, issue tracker, and to settings relevant to privacy and security.
Under the hood the support for editing non-canonical archive types was improved, and it is now possible to try different methods to manage unsupported file types.
On Windows, McMilk codecs and sfx modules were updated, to support extra compression methods for .7z format (Brotli, FLZMA2, Lizard, Zstandard...), and on all platforms it is now possible to set an alias for 7z / p7zip backend to easily switch between alternative binaries.

PeaZip 9.1.0 brings a major restyle in application's look & feel and themes, and many usability improvements for the file manager, and archiving / extraction screens.
The scripting engine was refined, with the ability to adapt the syntax for a specific 7z version at runtime, and to export archive conversion tasks as scripts.
Support for TAR, Brotli, and Zstandard formats was improved.
A new PeaZip Portable package for BSD systems on x86_64 architecture is now available.

PeaZip 9.0.0 completes the GUI evolution of 8.x line, both with look&feel updates and with under the hood improvements, making the application easier to customize and adapt to different needs and environments.
Plugin are now simpler to install, support for PAQ and ZPAQ formats support is improved, more options are available for 7z/p7zip backend, and the application can now extract compressed TAR archives in a single step.
A total of 230 file extensions can now be opened as archives by PeaZip, with the addition of .pmdx, .pmvx, .tmdx, and .prdx SoftMaker Office files.

Unfortunately, /usr/lib/peazip/peazip was an executable. Double-clicking on it ran PeaZip. The search for an accompanying folder yielded only one possibility: a folder named res next to that peazip executable. In res, the only folder was bin; and in bin, the folders appeared to provide information for the executable on various compression algorithms (e.g., 7z, brotli, zstd).

For a moment, it appeared that GNOME had switched over to a Firefox type of update numbering, where the winner was the one who got to 1,000 first. Wikipedia seemed to say that, in 2021, the GNOME people cheated a bit in this: they leaped directly from GNOME 3 to GNOME 40, presumably because that was 2x 21. I could only surmise that, for PeaZip and me, the GNOME 3 instructions were more likely to work on my GNOME 42 system than were the GNOME 2 instructions.

I just started a job where 7zip is blocked as a potential security threat (I talked to IT about it and unblocking it is basically a nonnegotiable), which basically renders installing most packages impossible.

Seems like z7 is particularly problematic and we should put the effort in to get rid of it. Especially now that we really only use it in a way that gzip is a strictly better replacement for. GitHub issue filed: replace 7z with gzip Issue #3824 JuliaLang/Pkg.jl GitHub.

Thank you for the update and raising the issue on Github! So, my understanding from your post is to replace 7z.exe with a shell script named 7z.exe that contains those instructions but using gzip (or tar on Windows) functions?

I am having trouble getting the Peazip contextual menu to show up in DO. It works fine in explorer, but when I right click on an archive, or any other file in DO, the Peazip menu isn't there. This is the first app I have had this problem with.....every other app I have tried that has a contextual menu has worked fine. So,I would appreciate any help on getting it to show up in DO.

Nope it doesn't show with shift-click. It's really weird, cause every other app I have installed show correctly. I tried fiddling in the file preference in DO, but don't know much about that are so I didn't really test anything very useful.

I suppose it's possible Opus might not support this new method of Windows context menu handling (which - really, is just a more cumbersome version of how Opus allows context menu modification - but I guess it's mainly intended for app developers). GPsoft will have to weigh in on that...

It could just as easily be something that's supposed to work "already" but for some reason is "not" working in just this particular case - but I don't have a guess what would be causing it (other than what Leo asked about) seeing as how it's unlikely to be any of the "recent" issues having to do with 32bit/64bit conflicts and such... even if you're running a 64bit OS.

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