"7-zip now also has an official Linux version (`7zz`), which can be used to replace the unmaintained p7zip (`7zr`, `7za`, `7z`) ..."

That's interesting, thanks.

From time to time customers ask about adding "7zip" to the environment at rsync.net so that they can do things like:

  ssh [email protected] 7z blah blah ...

... and an official linux version would be a step closer to a solution there.

I see that source is available so we should be able to compile it for FreeBSD without too much trouble ... I'll write up something in next quarters tech notes about it ...

Thank you for pointing this out! This is the source of much confusion. Although Arch for example uses https://github.com/jinfeihan57/p7zip which seems to be reasonably maintained?

This where one can download it: https://www.7-zip.org/download.html

They provide a statically linked version (7zzs) that works on things like Alpine Linux.

Are you perhaps referring to the "7zip" package => https://packages.ubuntu.com/jammy/7zip ? It seems to be maintained by the Ubuntu MOTU Devs.

I searched a lot but couldn't find this "7zz" package you mentioned.

The "7zip" package is the official one. Linux support has been around before 22.00, but still relatively new. The old one is called "p7zip":

https://packages.ubuntu.com/jammy/p7zip

That one hasn't seen new releases since 2016.

The 7zz refers to the new binary name, which is different between the p7zip and 7zip packages.

dfsg in the package version is a note that it's been taken directly from Debian.

Cool! `nix-shell -p _7zz` works like a charm :)