How to Install and Uninstall p7zip-full Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: January 11,2025

1. Install "p7zip-full" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install p7zip-full on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "p7zip-full" package

This guide let you learn how to uninstall p7zip-full on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the p7zip-full package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: p7zip-full
Architecture: amd64
Version: 9.20.1~dfsg.1-4.2ubuntu0.1
Priority: optional
Section: universe/utils
Source: p7zip
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Mohammed Adnène Trojette
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 3787
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), libgcc1 (>= 1:3.0), libstdc++6 (>= 4.1.1)
Suggests: p7zip-rar
Conflicts: p7zip (<< 4.39-1)
Replaces: p7zip (<< 4.39-1)
Filename: pool/universe/p/p7zip/p7zip-full_9.20.1~dfsg.1-4.2ubuntu0.1_amd64.deb
Size: 908418
MD5sum: 9c32ec763f7ac88adf6526568e0d7ee3
SHA1: 66c83120f691062c1caed788e735728d6a0acfb5
SHA256: 9e38ace9698952cc5e7155889b9be0b0276f6bc67e8a2ccf5f8ebb43a92a1ca0
SHA512: 09bf288638cd0eefd4299a357fd05be2ab88bf986ad82965669771d5dc1c29a4ecfd0ec1800c22cad5d8dccd60c7eeccb25468db332250099945f66a13e30121
Homepage: http://p7zip.sourceforge.net/
Description-en: 7z and 7za file archivers with high compression ratio
p7zip is the Unix command-line port of 7-Zip, a file archiver that
archives with high compression ratios.
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p7zip-full provides utilities to pack and unpack 7z archives within
a shell or using a GUI (such as Ark, File Roller or Nautilus).
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Installing p7zip-full allows File Roller to use the very efficient 7z
compression format for packing and unpacking files and directories.
Additionally, it provides the 7z and 7za commands.
.
List of supported formats:
- Packing / unpacking: 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2, XZ and TAR
- Unpacking only: APM, ARJ, CAB, CHM, CPIO, CramFS, DEB, DMG, FAT,
HFS, ISO, LZH, LZMA, LZMA2, MBR, MSI, MSLZ, NSIS, NTFS, RAR (only
if non-free p7zip-rar package is installed), RPM, SquashFS, UDF,
VHD, WIM, XAR and Z.
.
p7zip provides 7zr, a light version of 7za, and p7zip, a gzip-like
wrapper around 7zr.
Description-md5: 285f0352aa3c100a6b1af72045a98369
Task: kubuntu-desktop, kubuntu-full, ubuntu-mate-core, ubuntu-mate-desktop, ubuntu-mate-cloudtop
Supported: 3y

Package: p7zip-full
Priority: optional
Section: universe/utils
Installed-Size: 3866
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Mohammed Adnène Trojette
Architecture: amd64
Source: p7zip
Version: 9.20.1~dfsg.1-4.2
Replaces: p7zip (<< 4.39-1)
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1), libstdc++6 (>= 4.1.1)
Suggests: p7zip-rar
Conflicts: p7zip (<< 4.39-1)
Filename: pool/universe/p/p7zip/p7zip-full_9.20.1~dfsg.1-4.2_amd64.deb
Size: 919256
MD5sum: e3ca520a37ad11d2ade127fd11ed1104
SHA1: f5cd6e8e69779cd09e6979096cd360abc823b0f8
SHA256: 5c279037c5057bb7492bff20a8eaef5c1578f3c8756e73bdd377b8100e61743c
Description-en: 7z and 7za file archivers with high compression ratio
p7zip is the Unix command-line port of 7-Zip, a file archiver that
archives with high compression ratios.
.
p7zip-full provides utilities to pack and unpack 7z archives within
a shell or using a GUI (such as Ark, File Roller or Nautilus).
.
Installing p7zip-full allows File Roller to use the very efficient 7z
compression format for packing and unpacking files and directories.
Additionally, it provides the 7z and 7za commands.
.
List of supported formats:
- Packing / unpacking: 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2, XZ and TAR
- Unpacking only: APM, ARJ, CAB, CHM, CPIO, CramFS, DEB, DMG, FAT,
HFS, ISO, LZH, LZMA, LZMA2, MBR, MSI, MSLZ, NSIS, NTFS, RAR (only
if non-free p7zip-rar package is installed), RPM, SquashFS, UDF,
VHD, WIM, XAR and Z.
.
p7zip provides 7zr, a light version of 7za, and p7zip, a gzip-like
wrapper around 7zr.
Description-md5: 285f0352aa3c100a6b1af72045a98369
Homepage: http://p7zip.sourceforge.net/
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu
Supported: 3y
Task: kubuntu-desktop, kubuntu-full, ubuntu-mate-core, ubuntu-mate-desktop, ubuntu-mate-cloudtop