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I have just installed Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid Vervet (+restricted extras), and noticed that I didn't have to install p7zip or p7zip-full to work with .7z files.

As far as I can see it is libarchive13 that is responsible for giving File Roller the ability to work with the 7z format, but is it still advisable to install p7zip or p7zip-full?

beruic
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  • Please [edit] your question and add output of dpkg -l | grep p7zip terminal command there. – Pilot6 May 25 '15 at 12:00
  • @Pilot6 Why? I don't have the package installed. They question goes on whether I should install it, or the already installed implementation is sufficient. – beruic May 25 '15 at 12:02
  • @Pilot6 If you must know, the output of that command is (as expected) empty. – beruic May 25 '15 at 12:03
  • I have not heard that file-roller could handle archives itself. It is just a wrapper. But if it works, why worry about that? – Pilot6 May 25 '15 at 12:05
  • According to package description libarchive13 has some limitations for 7z format. – Pilot6 May 25 '15 at 12:07
  • @Pilot6 Yes, but what limitations? I am unable to find that. – beruic May 25 '15 at 12:18
  • Let us continue this discussion in chat. – beruic May 25 '15 at 12:25
  • p7zip-full installs an additional command line tool, 7za, which has more options than the p7zip command and does not remove the original file after completing an operation . See https://askubuntu.com/questions/310397/how-to-make-7zip-behave-like-bzip-to-zip-a-file-and-delete-the-original – Enterprise Jun 18 '17 at 03:32

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simply use below command buddy:

sudo apt-get install dtrx
dtrx archive.tar.XX
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