The libarchive library provides a single interface for reading/writing various compression formats.
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Download (HTTP): https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/releases/download/v3.7.7/libarchive-3.7.7.tar.xz
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Estimated build time: 0.4 SBU (add 0.8 SBU for tests)
Install libarchive by running the following commands:
./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static && make
To test the results, issue: make check.
Now, as the root user:
make install
Still as the root user, create a
symlink so we can use bsdunzip as unzip, instead of relying on the
unmaintained Unzip package:
ln -sfv bsdunzip /usr/bin/unzip
As discussed in Wrong
Filename Encoding, if the Zip archive to be extracted
contains any file with a name containing any non-Latin
characters, you need to manually specify the encoding of those
characters or they will be turned into unreadable sequences in
the extracted file name. For example, if a Zip archive created
with WinZip, archive.zip, contains
a file named with Simplified Chinese characters, the encoding
should be CP936 and the -I
cp936 option should be used. I.e. the command to
extract the archive should be unzip
-I cp936 archive.zip.
--disable-static: This
switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.
--without-xml2: This switch sets expat
for xar archive format support instead of preferred libxml2 if both
packages are installed.
--with-nettle: This switch sets Nettle
for crypto support instead of OpenSSL.