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Linux and zip files

I was given a zip file apparently zipped in linux

Most of my compression and decompression are with tar a gunzip, so I am unfamiliar with zip in side of Linux

So I copied the file to a windows machine, and did the following

C:\new>unzip ACNX.7z
Archive: ACNX.7z
End-of-central-directory signature not found. Either this file is not
a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive. In the
latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found on
the last disk(s) of this archive.
unzip: cannot find zipfile directory in ACNX.7z,
and cannot find ACNX.7z.zip, period.

That would be the infozip program

SO this does not work. How can I unzip this in Linux

How can I unzip this in Windows?

Thanks

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Boris Virc

If you want to uncompress .7z archives, you must install 7zip on your Linux machine. Here is step by step to do this on Centos:

1. First install RPMforge repository following this instructions http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/RPMForge

2. Install p7ip package using YUM:

yum install p7ip

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3. To extract your archive file, use this command:

7za x [filename]

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