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Subject: Re: What programs do you make sure are installed on a new Linux install?
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote at 23:19 this Monday (GMT):
> On Mon, 08 Jul 2024 23:56:48 +0300, Anssi Saari wrote:
>
>> - I usually eventually will need wget and then likely unzip and possibly
>>   some other uncompression tools may follow.
>
> unar seems to work well for decompressing several different archive 
> formats in one program.


7z is another good "swiss army knife" decompression tool:

DESCRIPTION
       7-Zip is a file archiver supporting 7z (that implements  LZMA  compres‐
       sion  algorithm featuring very high compression ratio), LZMA2, XZ, ZIP,
       Zip64, CAB, RAR (if the non-free p7zip-rar package is installed),  ARJ,
       GZIP,  BZIP2,  TAR, CPIO, RPM, ISO, most filesystem images and DEB for‐
       mats.  Compression ratio in the new 7z format is 30-50% better than ra‐
       tio in ZIP format.

(source: 7z man page)
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