"7-zip now also has an official Linux version (`7zz`), which can be used to replace the unmaintained p7zip (`7zr`, `7za`, `7z`) ..."

That's interesting, thanks.

From time to time customers ask about adding "7zip" to the environment at rsync.net so that they can do things like:

  ssh user@rsync.net 7z blah blah ...

... and an official linux version would be a step closer to a solution there.

I see that source is available so we should be able to compile it for FreeBSD without too much trouble ... I'll write up something in next quarters tech notes about it ...

Thank you for pointing this out! This is the source of much confusion. Although Arch for example uses https://github.com/jinfeihan57/p7zip which seems to be reasonably maintained?

This where one can download it: https://www.7-zip.org/download.html

They provide a statically linked version (7zzs) that works on things like Alpine Linux.

Are you perhaps referring to the "7zip" package => https://packages.ubuntu.com/jammy/7zip ? It seems to be maintained by the Ubuntu MOTU Devs.

I searched a lot but couldn't find this "7zz" package you mentioned.

Cool! `nix-shell -p _7zz` works like a charm :)