How To Install PeaZip 5.1.0 On Fedora, OpenSUSE And Mageia

Hello Linux Geeksters. As you may know, PeaZip is an open source archive manager, available for both Linux and Windows. It has support for more that 150 archive types, including the popular: 7Z, TGZ, BZ2, XZ, ZIP, RAR and many others. The latest version available is PeaZip 5.1.0.

PeaZip 5.1.0 allows the users to easily extract, create and convert more that one archive at once, split and join files, encrypt archives, find duplicates, calculate hashes and many others. For more information, see this page. In this article I will show you how to install PeaZip 5.1.0 on Fedora 19, Fedora 18, OpenSUSE 13.1, OpenSUSE 12.3, OpenSUSE 12.2, Mageia 4, Mageia 3 And ROSA Desktop.

Because there is no repository available for PeaZip, we have to download the rpm packages from the official site and install them with rpm -i. PeaZip comes in two flavours, one build with GTK, for the GNOME desktop and forks and one created by using the Qt libraries, for KDE:

How to install PeaZip 5.1.0 on Fedora, OpenSUSE, Mageia and ROSA Desktop (GTK):

$ wget -c http://sourceforge.net/projects/peazip/files/5.1.0/peazip-5.1.0.LINUX.GTK2-1.i386.rpm
$ sudo rpm -i peazip-5.1.0.LINUX.GTK2-1.i386.rpm

How to install PeaZip 5.1.0 on Fedora, OpenSUSE, Mageia and ROSA Desktop (Qt):

$ wget -c http://sourceforge.net/projects/peazip/files/5.1.0/peazip-5.1.0.LINUX.Qt-1.i386.rpm
$ sudo rpm -i peazip-5.1.0.LINUX.GTK2-1.i386.rpm