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#1 2010-07-24 07:03:17
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Which is the best package for handling .zip files?
Based on the descriptions libzip or unzip would be the best choice, but unzip only.. uh.. unzips.
What package would you recomend to save me the trouble of trying them all?
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#2 2010-07-24 07:06:43
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Re: Which is the best package for handling .zip files?
You could try atool in Community
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#4 2010-07-24 07:44:35
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Re: Which is the best package for handling .zip files?
Thanks guys! "zip" and "unzip" just seem to go together perfectly based on their names. 
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#5 2010-07-24 08:09:45
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Re: Which is the best package for handling .zip files?
p7zip
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#6 2010-07-24 18:02:30
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Re: Which is the best package for handling .zip files?
Does p7zip have a GUI? Will Gnome File Roller use it's "codec" for lack of a better term? hehe
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#7 2010-07-24 19:43:21
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Re: Which is the best package for handling .zip files?
xarchiver (GUI) uses unzip and p7zip as its backend, so yeah.. I guess there is some gui for it. Not sure about gnome file roller.
Last edited by Inxsible (2010-07-24 19:43:38)
There's no such thing as a stupid question, but there sure are a lot of inquisitive idiots !
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#8 2010-07-24 20:39:11
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Re: Which is the best package for handling .zip files?
Oh, that's cool. Thanks for that info.
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#9 2010-07-24 21:01:22
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Re: Which is the best package for handling .zip files?
Pretty much every GUI archiver automatically uses backends for compression. So adding zip and unzip will automatically add zip support in file roller/xarchiver/etc.
Personally, I'd rather be back in Hobbiton.
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#10 2010-07-24 21:16:02
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Re: Which is the best package for handling .zip files?
Yeah that's what i was thinking too, but i'd assume that some front ends don't recognize some backends.
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#11 2010-07-24 21:19:18
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Re: Which is the best package for handling .zip files?
By using a search engine and three seconds of your time, you could have found this page: http://fileroller.sourceforge.net/features.html
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#12 2010-07-24 21:26:03
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Re: Which is the best package for handling .zip files?
oh, cool, thanks.
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#13 2010-07-25 00:59:44
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Re: Which is the best package for handling .zip files?
In my opinion
Fileroller > Xarchiver
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#14 2010-07-25 01:22:51
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Re: Which is the best package for handling .zip files?
The wiki and the web could have answered this question. Closing.
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