PeaZip 6.1.1 released – Alternative to WinRar, WinZip

PeaZip is a free and open source graphical archive manager and compression utility available for Linux, BSD, Windows. It support over 180 archive formats including rar, zip, tar and can also encrypt them. It’s a free software replacement for WinRAR with a nice-looking graphical interface.

PeaZip 6.1.1 changelog

•  BACKEND
• (Linux) p7zip updated to 16.02
• Pea 0.56

• FILE MANAGER
• Settings, archiving, and extraction screens made scrollable for better readability
• Various minor improvements and fixes
• File tools
• CRC64 now is included in set of default algorithms
• default algorithm for the browser can now be set from context menu File manager > File Tools

• EXTRACTION and ARCHIVING
• Password button moved on the right of output dialog for better visibility
• Some options were moved to Advanced options panels for archiving and extraction
• "Use advanced filters" moved to Advanced options panel (archiving and extraction)
• "Enumerate folder content" and "Add timestamp to archive name", plus timestamp format option, moved to Advanced options panel (archiving)
• Some options, previously volatile, are now saved to configuration
• "Delete after archiving / extraction" option is now remembered, but user will always be warned by confirmation prompt before proceeding, in order to avoid accidental deletion
• "Add timestamp to archive name" (archiving) is now remembered  

Install PeaZip 6.1.3 on Ubuntu

PeaZip only provides i386 package for Linux. Make sure you have enable i386 architecture on Ubuntu with the following command:

With GTK2

$ sudo apt-get install gdebi $ wget http://netcologne.dl.sourceforge.net/project/peazip/6.1.1/peazip_6.1.1.LINUX.GTK2-2_i386.deb $ sudo gdebi peazip_6.1.1.LINUX.GTK2-2_i386.deb

With Qt

$ sudo apt-get install gdebi $ wget http://netcologne.dl.sourceforge.net/project/peazip/6.1.1/peazip_6.1.1.LINUX.Qt-2_i386.deb $ sudo gdebi peazip_6.1.1.LINUX.Qt-2_i386.deb