You need to install the p7zip-full package to get the 7z, 7za, and 7zr CLI utilities on your system, as follows. The port of 7zip on Linux systems is called p7zip, this package comes pre-installed on many mainstream Linux distributions. It also comes with self-extracting capability for 7z format and it’s localized in up-to 87 languages. It provides strong AES-256 encryption in 7z and ZIP formats, offers a compression ratio that of 2-10 % for ZIP and GZIP formats (much better than those offered by PKZip and WinZip). It has a high compression ratio in 7z format with LZMA and LZMA2 compression, supports many other archive formats such as XZ, BZIP2, GZIP, TAR, ZIP and WIM for both packing and unpacking AR, RAR, MBR, EXT, NTFS, FAT, GPT, HFS, ISO, RPM, LZMA, UEFI, Z, and many others for extracting only. It has a powerful command line version that has been ported to Linux/POSIX systems.

Microsoft Windows, WinZip, WinRAR, IZarc, Info-ZIP, 7-Zip, PeaZip, B1 Free Archiver, DotNetZip.7-Zip is a free open source, cross-platform, powerful, and fully-featured file archiver with a high compression ratio, for Windows. Each file is stored separately, allowing different files in the same archive to be compressed using different methods. ZIP files are archives that store multiple files.ZIP allows contained files to be compressed using many different methods, as well as simply storing a file without compressing it. The main features of 7z format: Open architecture, High compression ratio, Strong AES-256 encryption, Ability of using any compression, conversion or encryption method, Supporting files with sizes up to 16000000000 GB, Unicode file names, Solid compressing, Archive headers compressing.

ZIP file format permits a number of compression algorithms, though DEFLATE is the most common. ZIP file may contain one or more files or directories that may have been compressed.

ZIP is an archive file format that supports lossless data compression. The 7-Zip program is publicly available under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License. The 7z format initially appeared as implemented by the 7-Zip archiver. 7z is a compressed archive file format that supports several different data compression, encryption and pre-processing algorithms.

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