7-Zip is a file archiver with a high compression ratio. The main features of 7-Zip are: * High compression ratio in 7z format with LZMA and LZMA2 compression * Supported formats: * Packing / unpacking: 7z, XZ, BZIP2, GZIP, TAR, ZIP and WIM * Unpacking only: AR, ARJ, CAB, CHM, CPIO, CramFS, DMG, EXT, FAT, GPT, HFS, IHEX, ISO, LZH, LZMA, MBR, MSI, NSIS, NTFS, QCOW2, RPM, SquashFS, UDF, UEFI, VDI, VHD, VMDK, WIM, XAR and Z. * For ZIP and GZIP formats, 7-Zip provides a compression ratio that is 2-10 % better than the ratio provided by PKZip and WinZip * Strong AES-256 encryption in 7z and ZIP formats * Powerful command line version

"7zip" provides: * /usr/bin/7z: Full featured with plugin functionality. * /usr/bin/7za: Major formats/features only. * /usr/bin/7zr: LZMA (.7z, .lzma, .xz) only. Minimal executable.

Note: The unRAR code was dropped to keep compatible with DFSG. Install 7zip-rar package in non-free section to use RAR files.