PeaZip file manager and file archiver has reached the 5.9.1 release recently. Here’s a quick tip for you how to install it in 64-bit Ubuntu.

PeaZip website provides the .deb binaries for Debian/Ubuntu based systems, but the software does not launch after installing it on 64-bit Ubuntu. The workaround is to simply install the 32-bit dependency libraries.

1. Go to link below:

PeaZip download archive

select download

• peazip_x.x.x.LINUX.GTK2-2_i386.deb for 32-bit Ubuntu
• peazip_x.x.x.LINUX.GTK2-2_all.deb for 64-bit Ubuntu

2. For 32-bit machine just install the package and you’re done.

The 64-bit package requires ia-32 libs, which is no available in Ubuntu since Ubuntu 13.10. The “fix” is to simply install the 32bit dependency libraries on 64bit Ubuntu, and that’s how multiarch works.

So first open terminal from Unity Dash, App Launcher, or via Ctrl+Alt+T shortcut key. When it opens, paste below command and run to install dependencies:

sudo apt-get install libatk1.0-0:i386 libc6:i386 libcairo2:i386 libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0:i386 libglib2.0-0:i386 libgtk2.0-0:i386 libpango1.0-0:i386 libx11-6:i386 libcanberra-gtk-module:i386

Then click to open and install downloaded PeaZip binary via Software Center or Gdebi.

3. You may right-click on one of your RAR, ZIP, TAR, etc. files, go to the Properties -> Open With tab. Finally select PeaZip as the default application to open these file formats.

PeaZip 5.2.0, the free and open-source file and archive manager has been released recently. This version contains mainly 177 new files support and very_fast mode to Secure delete.

PeaZip 5.2.0 changelog:

BACKEND

• UPX 3.91

FILE MANAGER

• (Windows Vista and newer) Improved UAC integration for archiving and extraction functions
• Improved file deletion modes
  • Added very_fast mode (single pass random data) to Secure delete
  • Fast mode (two pass random data) is now default mode for secure delete
  • Added Zero delete, deletion mode overwriting existing file with all 0
• (Windows) Introduced free space deletion modes
  • Added Secure delete free space, overwriting with random data multiple times (same as secure file delete)
  • Added Zero delete free space, overwriting with all 0 to improve compressibility of filesystem (i.e. disk image backup, virtual machine optimization)
• Re-introduced local help file for offline support
• Various fixes and improvements
  • (Linux) fixed using output path as working directory

EXTRACTION and ARCHIVING

• “Extract all to” starts from input folder (or default extraction path, if set)
• Implemented extract/archive to original input folder: multiple input files from different paths can be extracted/archived each in its own path in a single pass

177 file extensions supported

• Added support for .msu (Microsoft update) and .mpp (Microsoft Project file)

Download & Install PeaZip 5.2.0

The source code, Windows EXE, Ubuntu DEB, Fedora RPM packages are available in sourceforge page

For Ubuntu 13.04, Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 14.04 and higher, you may need the libgmp3c2 package.

For Nautilus integration, read this post