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Today I want to download a 7z file to my EC2 instance, but after the download is finished, I cannot find a command to unzip this 7z file. So I search the Internet and find a way to install 7-Zip on my Amazon Linux.

Notice: This is for 32-bit only.

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It seems like that Amazon doesn’t offer p7zip package in their repository, so I find a place to get the rpm packages. You can find them at http://packages.sw.be/p7zip/.

Follow these commands to install the latest version of 7-Zip:

wget -c http://packages.sw.be/p7zip/p7zip-9.20.1-1.el4.rf.i386.rpm
wget -c http://packages.sw.be/p7zip/p7zip-plugins-9.20.1-1.el4.rf.i386.rpm
rpm -ivh p7zip-9.20.1-1.el4.rf.i386.rpm
rpm -ivh p7zip-plugins-9.20.1-1.el4.rf.i386.rpm

After the installation is finished, use following command to unzip the 7z file:

7z x filename

The argument x means unzip the file following its own directory structure.