Once you ready, click on the OK button and your file will be archived or compressed using the 7ZIP desktop software.7z and 7za file archivers with high compression ratio You can also set the dictionary size, compression method, Password, create SFX archive, AES-256 bit encryption and more. By default, the 7z is selected but it also provides the TAR, Wim and ZIP formats. Select the format in which you want to archive the file or folder.

To compress any file or folder select it from the explorer and then click on the +ADD button.

From where you can archive or compress any file you want.

Once you click on the 7Zip desktop application a GUI-graphical user interface will open.

Under the All application Tab you will find the 7ZIP installed icon.

Now go to the Ubuntu Show Applications dotted square button.

Note: After running the above command it will ask you to authenticate using the Ubuntu user password.

After installing the Snap, its time to install the P7ZIP Desktop on Ubuntu.

Now first, we enable the SNAP on Ubuntu by installing it.

The shortcut to access the Ubuntu Terminal is CTRL+ALT+T. The tutorial also work on the earlier version of Ubuntu such as 17.04,16.04,15.04 & 14.04 Let’s see the tutorial how to install 7ZIP on Ubuntu 18.04 using Snap. The Snap saves a lot of time of developers by not modifying the codes of software to work on different distributions. On the other hand, the traditional APT or YUM repositories which work only some specific type of Linux distros. The Snap is a container that holds different application packages of software those work across a wide range of Linux distributions. You can simply do it from its front end just like the Win RAR. The P-7ZIP desktop version doesn’t need the command line to compress or extract the files.

We already have discussed in our previous article how to install command line version the P7zip on Ubuntu and now, here in this tutorial, we let you know the process to install 7ZIP desktop version on Ubuntu using SNAP. And P7Zip Desktop is a fork of P7Zip which by default comes with command line interface.

The p7zip is a fork of original desktop 7-Zip file archiver. 7-Zip file archiver comes with high compression ratio better than WinRAR as claimed by the official page of the 7-Zip. The 7zip is a great file compression tool which is open source and free to use for Windows, Linux or Mac.

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