Hi,

Wants to compress files (especially Vidoe clips) on Nokia N900, can anyone help me to tell suitable utility to compress files on my Nokia N900.
Tried to install 7Zip as suggested by Torpedo48 on url http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=40685, but fails.

err msg
"unable tio install P7Zip-full"
"Incompatible application package"

Can anyone help me on this.

Thanks

Video files are already compressed. Trying to compress them again usually leads to negligible space savings and in some cases increases the file size.

I think it ships with tar and gzip, but like already stated there's no point compressing already compressed files.

The syntax is:

tar -czf archive.tar.gz source files

Extract:

tar -xzf archive.tar.gz

Hi,
I hope there is some confusion about it.
My problem is I need to compress files on my N900 before uploading them on Internet.
For this I need some sort of utility like WinZip or WinRar in Windows PC. I tried to install P7Zip utility but fails. Can anyone help me about any such utility. May it compress files in any format like ZIP, RAR, tar -czf archive.tar.gz, 7Z, SITX etc.

Thanks

Hope I'm not adding to the confusion, but Is this what you are looking for?

If you check in the repos there are apps. that provide a front end in the file manager to compress files.

Or you can easily do it from the command line; with zip for example, to compress a single file
To compress a whole directory

I don't think zip is installed out-of-the-box, so:
# apt-get install zip

If you search with term zip here
http://maemo.org/packages
it looks like that there is many differen cli utilities to choose from You have to enable maybe testing/devel depending on what app you want to install. Please understand that extras&devel are for users who are not afraid of flashing & using search before asking

Look like there is also gui front-end file-roller and xarchiver. Those still need separably compress utilities installed.

@jd4200
Seems that zip is in Devel repository.