How to Install Peazip in Linux

To Install Peazip in Linux

Steps to Install Peazip is explained with step by step process in this article. It is a free and open-source application software which is released under GNU Lesser General Public License. Written in Free Pascal and available for all major platforms including Windows, Mac (under development), Linux and BSD.

Characteristics of PeaZip

• The native archive format (PEA archive format) is capable of featuring compression, Multi-Volume Split, Flexible authenticated encryption and integrity check.
• Available for architecture 32-bit and 64-bit, Platforms &ndash Windows, Linux, Mac and BSD.
• Available in lots of package format &ndash exe, DEB, RPM, TGZ and portable package format. Also compiled differently for QT and GTK2.
• Supports 179 file extension like 7z, Tar, Zip, gzip, bzip2, &hellip and cutting edge archive file format like PAQ, LPAQ, etc.
• Customizable User Interface &ndash Icons and color scheme can be changed.
• Archive format conversion supported.
• Strong security implementation by &ndash archive encryption, random password/key files generation and secure file deletion.
• Capable of file splitting/joining, byte-to-byte file comparison, hash file, batch rename, System benchmarking, integrated image thumbnail viewer.
• The interface has search and history features for easy navigation within archive contents.
• Support for fine filtering by multiple inclusion and exclusion.
• Added “ Halt system after task completion” flag in advanced compression/extraction options tab.
• Extract and archive automatically using command line generated exporting the job defined in GUI front-end.
• Capable of Creating, Editing and Restoring archive thus ensured speedy archiving and Backup.
• New advanced selection features like date, size, staring with same character similar to selected object.

Installation of Peazip in Linux

First go to the PeaZip Download page, there you will notice four different download links (PeaZip, PeaZip 64 bit, PeaZip Portable and Linux/BSD), Click the one that suits your platform, architecture and need.

To download GTK2 based portable source tarball package, directly compile for both 32-bit and x86-64 systems.

&mdash &mdash &mdash &ndash For 32-bit Systems &mdash &mdash &mdash &ndash

[root@linuxhelp Desktop]# https://sourceforge.net/projects/peazip/files/6.0.0/peazip-6.0.0.LINUX.GTK2.tgz

&mdash &mdash &mdash &ndash For 64-bit Systems &mdash &mdash &mdash &ndash

[root@linuxhelp Desktop]# wget https://sourceforge.net/projects/peazip/files/6.0.0/peazip_portable-6.0.0.LINUX.x86_64.GTK2.tar.gz
--2016-03-31 14:47:39--  https://sourceforge.net/projects/peazip/files/6.0.0/peazip_portable-6.0.0.LINUX.x86_64.GTK2.tar.gz
Resolving sourceforge.net... 216.34.181.60
Connecting to sourceforge.net|216.34.181.60|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
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HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 11640366 (11M) [application/x-gzip]
Saving to: “ peazip_portable-6.0.0.LINUX.x86_64.GTK2.tar.gz” 

100%[===================================================================================================================> ] 11,640,366  89.4K/s   in 2m 40s

Now, extract the source tar archive file and set the executable permissions.

&mdash &mdash &mdash &ndash For 32-bit Systems &mdash &mdash &mdash &ndash

[root@linuxhelp Desktop]# tar -zxvf peazip-6.0.0.LINUX.GTK2.tgz
[root@linuxhelp Desktop]# cd /usr/local/share/PeaZip/

If the file’ s mode is in non-executable.

[root@linuxhelp Desktop]# chmod 755 peazip
[root@linuxhelp Desktop]# ./peazip

&mdash &mdash &mdash &ndash For 64-bit Systems &mdash &mdash &mdash &ndash

[root@linuxhelp Desktop]# tar -zxvf peazip_portable-6.0.0.LINUX.x86_64.GTK2.tar.gz
[root@linuxhelp Desktop]# cd peazip_portable-6.0.0.LINUX.x86_64.GTK2/

If the file’ s mode is non-executable.

[root@linuxhelp Desktop]# chmod755 peazip
[root@linuxhelp Desktop]# ./peazip

Run the ./peazip command and it will list the contents of my Home directory in file browser, by default.
install

When you want to run portable peazip, you need to navigate to directory where peazip is and then fire it. If the path is short it is easy, in case of longer path it will be tough. To overcome this, copy the executable peazip file to /usr/bin directory and create a symbolic link of executable peazip in /usr/bin directory.

&mdash &mdash &mdash &ndash For 32-bit Systems &mdash &mdash &mdash &ndash

[root@linuxhelp Desktop]#ln -s /usr/local/share/PeaZip/peazip /usr/bin/peazip

&mdash &mdash &mdash &ndash For 64-bit Systems &mdash &mdash &mdash &ndash

[root@linuxhelp Desktop]# mv peazip_portable-6.0.0.LINUX.x86_64.GTK2 /usr/local/share/
[root@linuxhelp Desktop]# ln -s /usr/local/share/peazip_portable-6.0.0.LINUX.x86_64.GTK2/peazip  /usr/bin/peazip

Use the following command to fire peazip from any location.

[root@linuxhelp Desktop]#  peazip

Limitations of PeaZip

• No support to add files/folders to sub folders of already created archive. Doing so will add the files/folders to the root.
• Graphical front-end progress bar is less reliable.
• No support of file editing from inside of Archive.