How to get p7zip GUI working on FreeBSD?

[First_Law_of_Unix]

It seems the p7zip is deleted from the ports:

FreshPorts -- archivers/p7zip: File archiver with high compression ratio

p7zip is a Unix port of 7-Zip, a file archiver with high compression ratio (www.7-zip.org) with lots of features: * 7-Zip is free software distributed under the GNU LGPL * High compression ratio in new 7z format with LZMA compression o Unicode file names o Variable dictionary size (up to 4...

www.freshports.org

I'm using PeaZip and it is throwing errors when trying to compress files:



Anyone able to get p7zip GUI archiver to work on FreeBSD 13.1?

Thanks.

 

[Alexander88207]

archivers/7-zip is the replacement for archivers/p7zip.

It seems that you are using KDE, what about using archivers/ark?

 

[First_Law_of_Unix]

archivers/7-zip is the replacement for archivers/p7zip.

Thanks, I will try 7-zip. I hope there is a GUI implication of it.

It seems that you are using KDE, what about using archivers/ark?

Generally had issues with Ark previously because it did not support many formats for extraction as to p7zip. Maybe Ark supports many formats like 7zip as of now since I see many are recommending Ark.