If everything is Ok, a similar output will be shown, with the program version and usage.Īt this point the program is ready to use, but, for convenience, you should install it on a directory on the system’s path, so other people can use it and you can only type the program name (without the “./” part). Test the extracted file with the following command. You can use wget (Debian/Ubuntu) or curl (Red Hat/CentOS) command for downloading (the name of the file may be different, due to version updates): curl -LOJ Īfter the download, extract the 7zzs file from the tar package with the command: tar xf 7z*-linux-圆4.tar.xz 7zzs To manually install 7zip access the project’s download page at and download the versions corresponding to your system ( on most systems it will be the 64-bit Linux x86-64 version). Red Hat based distros (Fedora, CentOS, AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux): yum -y install p7zip Manually Installing 7zip If the package is not available, you can download a pre-compiled version at 7zip site’s, Install 7zip Using a Package Managerĭebian-based distros (like Debian and Ubuntu): apt-get -y install p7zip The easiest (and preferable) way is using your distro’s package system. There are two ways of installing 7zip on your system.