PeaZip is a cross-platform, desktop neutral file archiver utility that provides an unified portable GUI (Qt5 and GTK2) for many Open Source technologies like 7-Zip, FreeArc, PAQ, UPX...
Create 7Z, ARC, Brotli, BZ2, GZ, *PAQ, PEA, QUAD/BALZ, TAR, UPX, WIM, XZ, ZIP, Zstandard files
Extract over 180 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:
In order to reduce dependencies installable PeaZip packages for Linux needs to satisfy, since release 5.9.0 all backend except for p7zip were moved to "Optional Formats" plugin, which can be installed separately if needed extracting the package in peazip/res directory.
The plugin is not needed by Portable versions of the software.
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.
7.8.0 25 days ago
Improved extraction, can set custom archive extension, can set custom file types for "Extract everything for", new Qt5 package.
7.8.0 25 days ago
Improved extraction, can set custom archive extension, can set custom file types for "Extract everything for", new Qt5 package.
7.7.1 2 months ago
Fixes, improved handling of special characters.
Can now correctly work on filenames containing @ and ' characters.
7.7.0 3 months ago
Improved control over temp work data
Can now optionally use system's p7zip rather than ones coming with PeaZip for Linux packages
7.6.0 4 months ago
Can now use arbitrary code page for ZIP files creation, browsing,m and extraction.
Can now extract using copy/paste shortcut.
Auto updates archive treeview while browsing.
Usability improvements and fixes.
7.5.0 5 months ago
Extract everything for special file types
Improved renaming files in archives
New autoclose option
Faster defaults for 7Z and ZIP
7.4.2 6 months ago
FLZMA2, LZ4, and Zstd compression algorithms are now supported for 7z archives on Linux
7.4.1 7 months ago
PEA format now supports cascade encryption combining 256 bit AES, Twofish, and Serpent in EAX mode
Fixes
7.4.0 7 months ago
New GUI
Can now create and edit ZIPX files
7.3.1 10 months ago
Updated zstd 1.4.5, updated p7zip sfx modules, various fixes and improvements.
7.3.0 10 months ago
Improved browsing, extraction, archiving, added BLAKE2 hash, added support for more formats, new 64 bit DEB installer
7.2.2 11 months ago
Various fixes
7.2.1 11 months ago
Fixes to new compression features
7.1.0 1 year ago
Addeds upport for Brotli (google) and Zstandard (Facebook) fast compression algorithms
Improved direct extraction form built in file manager
Added new compression options and presets
7.0.0 1 year ago
Improved high DPI support
New themes and icons
Open TAR archives as atomic operation
Improved file manager
6.9.0 1 year ago
Can update files in archives
Can add files to subfolder of existing archive
Show remaining time for current operation
6.8.0 1 year ago
Various fixes
Improved drag and drop in Windows version
6.7.2 2 years ago
Can now be minimized to system tray
6.7.1 2 years ago
New smart extraction to new folder
6.7.0 2 years ago
New streamlined GUI for archiving / extraction (multiple tasks in a single window), various fixes and improvements, smaller package size.
6.6.1 2 years ago
Added option to force batch extraction of unsupported file types with PeaZip (or other custom executable), and option to set a custom directory as working path, updated UPX backed to 3.95.
6.6.0 2 years ago
New fast routine for finding possible duplicate files, new option to edit non explicitly supported file types, like OpenOffice files, Microsoft COMPOUND files (Office), JAR, etc...
6.5.1 3 years ago
Updated crypto library and compiler
6.5.0 3 years ago
6.5.0
Can move and rename files in existing archives
Improved archive conversion
6.4.0 4 years ago
Tabbed browsing, improvements in archive conversion and handling archives with full/absolute paths (even mixed with relative paths).
6.3.1 4 years ago
Fixes, visual improvements, updated translations
6.3.0 4 years ago
DPI aware
New archive update options
6.1.1 4 years ago
Updated p7zip to 16.02
Various fixes and usability improvements
4 years ago
2016 06 19
6.0.3
Updated pea 0.55 backend
2016 04 30
6.0.1
PEA1.1 format update, introducing support for SHA3, Serpent, and Twofish
p7zip backend updated to 15.14
2016 02 27
Major release 6
Can now recursively extract archives fro directory, and delete open archive
Can sort by file type for solid 7z compression (improves compression ratio)
New themes
Various fixes and improvements
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bakaraka
13 years ago
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giorgiotani
13 years ago
I just updated the project publishing my first attempt of generic Linux RPM for PeaZip, hoping to make the program more friendly for a wider userbase.
I hope to get it better in the future and add also other kinds of packets.
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microchip
14 years ago
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giorgiotani
14 years ago
By the way, in next version (somewhere in next month), I'm going to introduce localization and I hope someone will help me in translating texts in languages other than English and Italian.
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rgfree
14 years ago
I have no problem with widening my horizon. So thanks for posting this here and please ignore all those nitpickers here that say: It's not a KDE app.
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BorgQueen
13 years ago
It replaced PowerArchiver as my default compression app when I'm stuck repair/reprogramming that other "OS" (which is all the time).
Although, it would be nice to see it for KDE. The GTK interface is very slow. That's my only complaint honest!
Thanks!
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Fri13
14 years ago
And yes, i would like only see KDE apps here what can use KDE themes so my KDE desktop is good looking and easy to use. BUT ark is terrible, it does it job to unpack and pack files but that's it. Almoust better job is got by using command line. And thats why i hope you can make Qt GUI for this and then remove this GTK+ from here and keep it on gnome-files.org.
Great job, KDE/Gnome needs more great archiving software.
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giorgiotani
14 years ago
I tried to statically link all libraries I can / know / figured out in my IDE, however if something is missing on a given machine, it will be reported by the system's installation manager when peazip binaries is started the first time.
Installing missing libraries with a modern installer manager for Linux is generally easier than installing software on any other operating system... as long as you have a good web connection ;) and all libraries may be missing are general purpouse GTK-related libraries you may easily find in most repositories or distribution CD/DVD.
I know this is not an optimal solution (even if neither a serious problem for a typical Linux user) but it is what I can give to the community at present state of my knowledge and of development state of the IDE I use.
When support for Qt will be full and mature on Lazarus IDE, it will be quite trivial to port PeaZip for that libraries, until that day I hope and try to offer a viable alternative archiver for an average Linux user.
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giorgiotani
14 years ago
It was exactly that way of thinking which made me to post PeaZip also here: if it may be useful to KDE users, as I hope, and runs fine on KDE (I uses it also on KDE consistently), why should I not tell them?
However, as the technology behind the IDE I use evolves, I hope to be able to release also a Qt port of the application.
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MamiyaOtaru
14 years ago
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app3al
14 years ago
Keep up the good work!
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giorgiotani
14 years ago
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app3al
14 years ago
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app3al
14 years ago
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BorgQueen
14 years ago
Oh one more thing, consider adding the ability to create self extracting files. I find windows has lot of problems with none native compression formats. It would be useful on systems that don't have a working decompression program (such as a windows system attacked by a virus).
Thanks
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giorgiotani
14 years ago
In the near future I'll invest some developing time in improving KDE desktop integration with .desktop files, hoping also to get some hints ideas from KDE users, from different Linux distribution and from different KDE releases.
Somewhere in the future probably I'll be also able to compile PeaZip for Qt from the IDE I use (Lazarus) but for the moment the support for Qt is under quite early development and I stayed on GTK that have in Lazaru IDE a more mature support, I appreciate both developing environment.
As for self-extracting archive, PeaZip (through included POSIX 7z) is jet able to create Windows self extracting archives (based on 7z compression), and as you say, it's a very handy function, expecially in some situations.
I hope your experience with PeaZip may be good and I hope you may find some functions you may like and find useful!
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gnumdk
14 years ago
It's really boring me...
Why some people SPAM kde-apps.org with gtk apps!
If nobody wants to use your soft, it's not a reason to pollute Internet with advertising:!
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giorgiotani
14 years ago
AFAIK KDE-apps.org is focused on applications which runs in KDE, not in Qt-only applications (even if I didn't find any clear notice about that before publishing my entry here, so I may be wrong).
Having my application no hard dependency with Gnome which would make it not run in KDE, I felt poitive about publishing it there, since I'm using it from a while happily in both desktop managers (and other minor ones).
This morning I added a pachage which provides .desktop files and simple instructions to have PeaZip in KDE's start and service menus whithout throwing away it's by design desktop-independence (for a generic KDE release on a generic Linux distribution).
I hope it may be a starting point (certainly not an arrive point) to addressing integration issues that other KDE-apps.org users, more than rightfully, rised yesterday.
I hope you can change your mind about the application, maybe in a future release, and I'm however glad to have offered it to the Open Source community even if I'm sure that it cannot seem useful or wothy to any people or any community.
Regards
Giorgio
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giorgiotani
14 years ago
PeaZip can be added in this way to Start Menu and to Konqueror's Service Menus; you can still use PeaZip as a portable, autocontained application, just re-applying KDE integration package on the machines where you want it to be integrated with KDE.
This is a first attempt to implement the integration, released quickly following the OS motto 'release early, release soon', so any suggestion and hint to make it more functional, and any test on various Linux distribution (I tested it on my SUSE 10) is very welcome!
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Superstoned
14 years ago
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giorgiotani
14 years ago
About GTK vs Qt, my choiche is purely dictated by the current state of support in the IDE I use (Lazarus/FreePascal), which is more mature for GTK than for Qt.
I like choiches and I would not favour one of those two libraries over the other, since both have a suitable licensing scheme for my needs (to deploy a LGPL application).
However, a very positive feature of Lazarus is that is very easy to replace graphic libraries to be used to compile the application, so in the future I definitely would like to compile a Qt-native version of PeaZip when the support status for those libraries will be more mature in Lazarus.
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Superstoned
14 years ago
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14 years ago
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giorgiotani
14 years ago
I must say you are right, however the reason I decided about submitting the application both to gnomefile.org and to kde-apps.org is mainly that the application is not strictly dependent from the desktop environment (in fact it's developed with Lazarus which is a great IDE to write portable applications).
So, as I intended to write the application to be not system or desktop depedent, I also decided (IMHO, coherently) to submit it to both of the major Linux download sites even if it's not strictly neither KDE nor Gnome dependent, even if you are right in that using GTK (even if statically) makes it more close to Gnome world.
I hope to not have misplaced the application submitting it to this site and if you feel it eligible for removal from KDE-Apps, please let me know.
Regards,
Giorgio
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14 years ago
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