A while ago, I wrote about getting rsync on ESXi: ESXi 5.1 and rsync – damiendebin.net.
Now I needed [WayBack] 7zip on ESXi to make sure I could test unpack some 7zip archives.
This turned out much easier than I thought, thanks to [WayBack] 7Zip for ESXI | Vladimir Lukianov: Заметки who pointed me to the [WayBack] P7ZIP project. P7ZIP actually created three things:
- p7zip (a POSIX 7zip),
- J7ZIP (a Java port of 7zip)
- java_lzma (the Java port of the [WayBack] 7zip lzma SDK which had the first implementation of [WayBack] lzma).
Here are the full steps to get 7zip on ESXi 5.x:
The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 