PeaZip is a free file and archive manager, structured as a frontend for multiple tools (like Ark and FileRoller), based on solid and proven Open Source technology of 7-Zip for handling mainstream archive formats, and other great Open Source tools (like FreeARC, PAQ, UPX...) for supporting additional file formats and features, in order to provide an all purpose zip utility featuring a powerful unified GUI, natively portable, cross-platform and desktop neutral.
On Benchmarks page you can see how PeaZip compares with other file archivers tools (WinRar, WinZip, and IZArc) in real world usage, and confront speed and compression performances of archiving utilities over a wide range of archive formats.
See change log and release notes.

Hints

PeaZip is available in many different languages, click Options > Localization to modify language of the GUI. If you are willing to contribute a translation check information in peazip-x.y.about_translations.zip file.
Over networks, this application can be made available to multiple users, either with a shared configuration or with separate configuration for each user, see "Settings" and "Customization and scripting" in the help file (F1), that also contain useful hints for enhancing PeaZip's system integration and use of PeaZip in scripts.
PeaZip is built to be fully modular, you can freely replace backend executables in PeaZip/res directory with updated ones (as long as they support the same syntax) or with 64 bit counterpart if available.
If the host system cannot or should not be modified it is recommended to use PeaZip Portable, that runs without installation and can be simply extracted in any path, even on the network or on removable devices as USB memories.
To extract ACE files it is needed a separate plugin (due to UNACE freeware but closed source nature) available in Add-ons page.

Install/uninstall on Linux
On Linux systems, PeaZip installer automatically create menu entries for KDE (on most versions); to add PeaZip to Gnome menu copy the "Archiving" folder placed in PeaZip/Freedesktop_integration/nautilus-scripts to system's Nautilus script's folder (in most versions open "Scripts" menu in system's context menu, and select "Open script's folder").
PeaZip is meant to be desktop neutral as possible, so it is not limited to be used under KDE and Gnome, and does not requires different packages to run on different desktop environments.
On PeaZip's official website are featured generic Linux packages, meant to be compatible with as many distributions and versions as possible, providing the system supports the widgetset (GTK2 * or Qt **) and the installer format (see for reference the list of Linux distributions by family), in example:
DEB ***: Debian, Ubuntu/Kubuntu, Knoppix, ...
RPM: Fedora, Mandriva, SUSE, Red Hat, ArkLinux, ...
TGZ: Slackware based.
PeaZip Portable for Linux does not need to be installed, so it is recommended if you want to test the application, to run it from a removable device, or if you should not modify host system (i.e. library freeze in production machines). It can be used on any Linux family extracting the package and running peazip binary in program's directory.
Third party packages explicitly targeted to a specific distribution/version are listed alongside the official generic packages, those packages are highly recommended for best integration with a specific Linux distribution and version.
If PeaZip is missing in your distribution's repositories please take time to recommend it to distribution's maintainers, pointing them to this website for evaluating possible advantages in featuring PeaZip i.e. the Portable version, or the desktop neutrality, sources that can easily target either GTK2 or Qt widgetset, or its GUI etc...
If a package does not run on a specific system please launch peazip binary on a console to get a more detailed error report.

* On some Linux distributions the GTK2 version may require to install some components of gtk/gdk libraries, like libgdk_pixbuf, those components are quite common and can be usually found in repositories of each distribution.

** Qt widgetset packages requires Qt 4.5 or more recent, and needs libQt4Pas.so installed in /usr/local/lib or equivalent directory (copy the file and run ldconfig; it is done automatically in installable packages), such as /usr/lib or /usr/lib32 on some 64 bit distributions.
A copy of libQt4Pas.so is available in PeaZip's directory, ./usr/local/share/PeaZip/ for the installable packages.
If the Qt version does not start on some systems, as some system's visual styles may cause recursive repainting error, you can fix the problem starting it in a console (or script) as: peazip -style=cleanlooks

*** DEB packages reports (all) for architecture check, so can be installed on 32 and 64 bit systems (providing that ia-32 libs are available). For this reason, some package managers may report warnings since packages not marked for a specific architecture are generally not expected to contain binary files.
Alternatively an i386 DEB is provided for GTK2 version, i386 DEB can be installed on 64 bit Linux systems using dpkg -i --force-architecture.


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