Install PeaZip on Ubuntu Linux. PeaZip is an open source archiver and file compressor that can be used to compress and extract Files on Ubuntu Linux. PeaZip archiver software can work on most common archive types (7Z, ACE, RAR, TAR, ZIP, ZIPX), installers (DEB, RPM) and disk images (DMG, ISO, UDF, WIM).
PeaZip for Linux provides the same wide array of data archiving, compression, strong encryption (AES, Serpent, Twofish), file management features (secure delete, checksum/hash files), and uses same intuitive user interface on Microsoft Windows and on various flavours of Linux and BSD, supporting Gnome, KDE, XFCE, and other desktop managers.
Prominent features of PeaZip:
- Create and extract more than one archives at same time.
- Split or Join Files and create self extracting achieves.
- Secure Delete operation and password manager
- Find duplicate files and calculate hashes.
Like Arkarchiving tool and FileRollerarchive manager archivers, PeaZip is a frontend for Open Source components from 7-Zip and other great projects (FreeARC, PAQ, UPX…), providing an unified GUI compressor tool, natively portable, cross-platform, independent from widget set / window manager, Free Software replacement for WinRar, WinZip and similar software.
Install PeaZip on Ubuntu
PeaZip can easily be installed on Ubuntu Systems. Run the following commands in Terminal to install PeaZip on Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.04 and other Ubuntu Derivatives:
sudo apt-get install gdebi
wget http://netcologne.dl.sourceforge.net/project/peazip/6.1.1/peazip_6.1.1.LINUX.GTK2-2_i386.deb
sudo gdebi peazip_6.1.1.LINUX.GTK2-2_i386.deb
Once installed, open PeaZip from Ubuntu Dash or Terminal.