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I need some help here..., I'm working on a windows PC, SSHed into my server. I want to install p7zip (linux command line version of 7zip): http://sourceforge.net/projects/p7zip/files/p7zip/9.20.1/

Which package do I grab there? I have no need to make this myself on my server, I'd be happy to just get it on there and get it running... Can somebody help me out here?

Thanks

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p7zip is available in epel repo:

Name       : p7zip
Arch       : x86_64
Version    : 9.20.1
Release    : 2.el5
Size       : 745 k
Repo       : epel
Summary    : Very high compression ratio file archiver
URL        : http://p7zip.sourceforge.net/
License    : LGPLv2 and (LGPLv2+ or CPL)
Description: p7zip is a port of 7za.exe for Unix. 7-Zip is a file archiver with a very high
           : compression ratio. The original version can be found at http://www.7-zip.org/.

Install epel repo:

# rpm -ivh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm

and use yum to install p7zip:

# yum -y install p7zip
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  • Is this better than the RPM method that MDPC wrote below for some reason?
    – Shackrock
    Nov 9, 2011 at 12:57
  • It is more convenient because you don't have to find, download and install manually.
    – quanta
    Nov 9, 2011 at 13:06
  • Gotcha. But in this case, since It's already found and moved to the server - no difference...right (just one line at the command prompt either way)?
    – Shackrock
    Nov 9, 2011 at 13:30
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I'd pickup the package from somewhere like:

 http://pkgs.repoforge.org/p7zip/p7zip-9.20.1-1.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm

And then

 rpm --install p7zip-9.20.1-1.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm

it (as root of course). I have choosen the 64-bit version but the 32-bit version is there also.

PS: Don't be afraid to use google to find the package you are looking for.

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  • so literally, download it on windows, send over the file to any directory on the server, and after I do the rpm command on it, it's installed? Why did I think this was way more complicated?
    – Shackrock
    Nov 9, 2011 at 1:04
  • sorry, also: if something goes wrong, how can I go back?
    – Shackrock
    Nov 9, 2011 at 1:05
  • rpm is a fairly robust program and it should not fail and if there is some problem all still should be ok.
    – mdpc
    Nov 9, 2011 at 1:09

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