Open alternatives to proprietary software (IV): 7zip compressor/uncompressor

There are a lot of open compressing software, one of them is 7zip

• Multisystem: available for Windows, GNU/Linux, Mac, Amiga, BeOS, DOS, Solaris, etc...
• Support almost all compressing formats and it has an own one than compress the files very well.
• It can open iso, cab, msi, linux packages, etc...
• Very light, 1 or 2 Mb.
• You can use it in your mother tongue, available 79 languages.

If you use ubuntu or debian install p7zip, p7zip-full y p7zip-rar packages and you can open almost all the files.
You can install it with the software center of your distro or from console with the commands:

apt-get install p7zip p7zip-full  p7zip-rar