p7zip – 7zr file archiver with high compression ratio

p7zip is the Unix command-line port of 7-Zip, a file archiver that handles the 7z format which features very high compression ratios.

p7zip provides:

  • /usr/bin/7zr a standalone minimal version of the 7-zip tool that only handles 7z, LZMA and XZ archives. 7z compression is 30-50%% better than ZIP compression.

  • /usr/bin/p7zip a gzip-like wrapper around 7zr.

p7zip can be used with popular compression interfaces (such as File Roller or Nautilus).

Another package, p7zip-full, provides 7z and 7za which support more compression formats.

Package availability chart

Distribution

Base version

Our version

Architectures

Debian GNU/Linux 10.0 (buster)

16.02+dfsg-6

Debian GNU/Linux 11.0 (bullseye)

16.02+dfsg-8

Debian GNU/Linux 12.0 (bookworm)

16.02+dfsg-8

Debian GNU/Linux 9.0 (stretch)

16.02+dfsg-3+deb9u1

16.02+dfsg-1~nd90+1

i386, amd64

Debian testing (trixie)

16.02+transitional.1

Debian unstable (sid)

16.02+transitional.1

16.02+dfsg-1~nd+1

i386, amd64

Ubuntu 16.04 “Xenial Xerus” (xenial)

9.20.1~dfsg.1-4.2

16.02+dfsg-1~nd16.04+1

i386, amd64

Ubuntu 18.04 “Bionic Beaver” (bionic)

16.02+dfsg-6

Ubuntu 20.04 “Focal Fossa” (focal)

16.02+dfsg-7build1

Ubuntu 22.04 “Jammy Jellyfish” (jammy)

16.02+dfsg-8

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