I installed 7zip today from software centre but it won't showed up in launch bar (side bar). I did a lot but failed to open 7zip "window" from any where. I clicked it in dash but then I was sent to software center showing that it is installed. I just don't know how to start it. Nor it is showing in right-click menu.
I actually wanted to open flareget which is in .tar.gz. Ubuntu's default archive opener isn't opening it and showing me this:
And if I try to remove 7zip, it's saying file-roller should also be removed:
What's going on and what's solution?
Best Answer
First of all, p7zip that you have installed is a command line tool -- it has no reason to appear in the sidebar. You run it from command line. It is an obscure little tool and in the fifteen or so years I use Linux I never had the need to install it.
Second: you definitely do not need p7zip to open tar.gz files; this is the standard archive / compression in Unix, virtually any Unix comes with tools provided to open and handle that files.
.taris the archive that has been compressed with gzip to get the.tar.gzfile.The error message that you are getting indicates that your file is broken; it was not completely downloaded. This is why gzip complains. p7zip will not help you, you need to download the file again.
Third, the problem with dependencies is another issue. I tried to repeat your procedure, and did not observe the same problem. However, if it is a matter of keeping p7zip (which is not large), I'd just keep it.