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Hi everyone,
I've found a working version of 7zip on a little repository for our Nokia N900. Please notice that that is not my work and it's not related to me in any way. I've been using it for lot of time and I can say that:

- It is NOT OPTIFIED, it takes about 4 MB in your rootfs so be careful

- Works well with these file types:
Decompression: ARJ, CAB, CHM, CPIO, DEB, DMG, HFS, ISO, LZH, LZMA, MSI, NSIS, RAR, RPM, UDF, WIM, XAR and Z
Compression/Decompression: 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR

- It has not a GUI, so you have to use it through X-Term

-Type 7z in your X-Term and read the instructions

DISCLAIMER: do not use this repository and the packages inside it unless you know what you are really doing. Add this repository and use the packages at your own risk, I do not assume any responsibility for them.

These are the catalog details:

Catalog name: N900 Extras
Web address: http://n900.altervista.org/extras
Distribution: fremantle
Components: free

You'll find two packages, I've just tried the 7zip porting for the Nokia N900, if someone wants to test the busybox-advanced package (it should add more than 170 commands to the default N900's BusyBox ash shell)...

Hello torpedo and thank you for the port!
Now about the distribution: please take the time to input it into extras instead of creating your own repository :-)

Tante grazie
-Tom

Hello Tom,
in my first post I've written that I've just found that port, it is not related to me in any way... I'll edit the post to clarify that, sorry for the misunderstanding.

7zip is already available in extras-devel in a couple of packages - both optified (I think).

http://maemo.org/packages/view/p7zip/
http://maemo.org/packages/view/p7zip-full/

I'd be very thankful if somebody could code a GUI for 7zip as I always struggle to extracting and packing stuff into archives with a command line only app

Ahh, this is very cool. Can someone please confirm that this is optified?

I've got p7zip-full installed and that is definitely optified. The same guy did both ports.

This is really great news. I wrote a Python program that takes advantage of p7zip to be able to compress and decompress large amounts of data. You can read about it here:

http://pclosmag.com/html/Issues/200801/page07.html

It is going to be sweet to have that on the N900. I will test it as soon as I get a chance. I just wonder why it is still in devel and not even in testing. Any one knows?

Edit: (I sent a PM to the developer. He should know. )

Well I tried it and it worked perfectly, including 7sqz and 7usqz!!!
Notice that to make 7sqz and 7usqz executables you have to do so outside of home since home is an NTFS partition that doesn't support the executable bit. So what I did is download both to MyDocs and then used this commands to set them up:

sudo gainroot
cp ./7* /usr/bin
chmod 755 /usr/bin/7sqz
chmod 755 /usr/bin/7usqz

I am not certain p7zip is optified though. I neglected to check how much room I had on my root partition before installing it, but last I checked I was at about 75%. I am now at 82% used. Maybe someone else can do a check on this.

Any way, I am thrilled with this. Thanks a lot!

Great! Now someone write a GUİ pl0x