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Review: Peazip 5 decompresses everything

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Peazip is one of the most versatile file compression and archiving utilities out there—possibly the most versatile—and it’s free. It’s also quite easy to use and offers the same features found in programs such as WinZip and WinRAR such as context menu integration, passwords, command line usage, etc.

Peazip supports every compressed archive format I’m aware of: 7Zip, ARC, GZ, TAR, ACE, RAR, etc. There’s also support for both ISO and UDF disc images and Linux package formats such as DEB, RPM, PET/PUP, and SLP. As a bonus, you can open Mac HFS DMG files. There are more, but the point is that there’s little out there in the way of compressed file you can’t browse and extract from.

As you can tell from the file type associations dialog, Peazip supports a lot of formats.

While I’ve always appreciated the effort that goes into this piece of free software, I’ve also installed, then uninstalled Peazip several times over the years because of operational and performance issues. This has left me using WinRAR, which while a bit old-school looking, is rock-solid and fast. Version 5 of Peazip seems quite a bit more stable, but it still has a tendency to not close and launch 100% smoothly when you’re dealing with multiple instances. Also, the progress bar is still inaccurate, claiming far less progress than as actually been made. Several times, it was only 25% across when the task completed.

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Source: FULL ARTICLE at PCWorld

Linux

PeaZip 4.8.1 (KDE Archiving/Backup)

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ThumbnailPeaZip 4.8.1
(KDE Archiving/Backup)
PeaZip is a cross-platform, desktop neutral file archiver utility that provides an unified portable GUI (Qt and GTK2) for many Open Source technologies like 7-Zip, FreeArc, PAQ, UPX…

Create 7Z, ARC, BZ2, GZ, *PAQ, PEA, QUAD/BALZ, TAR, UPX, WIM, XZ, ZIP files

Extract over 150 archive types: ACE, ARJ, CAB, DMG, ISO, LHA, RAR, UDF, ZIPX and many more…

Features of PeaZip includes extract, create and convert multiple archives at once, create self-extracting archives, split/join files, strong encryption with two factor authentication, encrypted password manager, secure deletion, find duplicate files, calculate hashes, export job definition as scripts.

Installation and integration in *x systems:

If experiencing problems running PeaZip compiled for Qt, start it as:
peazip -style=cleanlooks

If experiencing problems with PeaZip compiled for Qt widgetset, it is available PeaZip compiled for GTK2 libraries as alternative, or it is possible to compile the application for its own Qt version using Lazarus/FreePascal IDE, which supports compiling the sources for various widgetsets: Win32, WinCE, fpGUI, Carbon, Qt, GTK1, GTK2.

On Linux systems, PeaZip installer automatically create menu entries for KDE (on most versions); to add PeaZip to Gnome menu copy the “Archiving” folder placed in PeaZip/Freedesktop_integration/nautilus-scripts to system’s Nautilus script’s folder (in most versions open “Scripts” menu in system’s context menu, and select “Open script’s folder”).

Qt widgetset packages requires Qt 4.5 or more recent, and needs libQt4Pas.so installed in /usr/local/lib or equivalent directory (copy the file and run ldconfig; it is done automatically in installable packages), such as /usr/lib or /usr/lib32 on some 64 bit distributions.
A copy of libQt4Pas.so is available in PeaZip’s directory, ./usr/local/share/PeaZip/ for the installable packages.
If the Qt version does not start on some systems, as some system’s visual styles may cause recursive repainting error, you can fix the problem starting it in a console (or script) as: peazip -style=cleanlooks

On 64 bit systems, backend binaries in PeaZip/res path can be freely replaced by users with respective 64 bit counterpart (if available).

PeaZip Portable is standalone software and doesn’t need installation and can be used from removable or remote paths without changing the host system (useful is system needs to stay library-freezed).
‘Freedesktop_integration’ folder in PeaZip’s path contains .desktop files and Nautilus scripts to help users to configure tighter integration of PeaZip with desktop environment’s menus.

changelog:
2013 01 31
Improved GUI, various fixes.

2012 12 06
Added native build of PeaZip Portable for BSD systems

2012 11 23
4.8 New graphic files management features, new alphabetically sorted Functions sidebar, improved mail functions integration

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Source: FULL ARTICLE at KDE Apps