WinZip Downloads

[Ronkoteus]

Can someone tell me how on Earth to get Linux to extraxt/unzip a WINzip file? Some of the drivers I was looking for concerning my previous post (about the sound) were in winzip! When I came back to my internet-inept linux computer to open these files, there were none. So what's up?????

Or am i just a bafoon?

[bdl]

You mean the file has a .zip extension? Its just a zip file. Winzip may be the most popular Windows compression app, but they didnt create the zip compression format. Most likely, your system can already decompress zip files, with the command unzip. If you dont already have the zip/unzip commands on your system, you'll have to find the appropriate packages and install those beforehand.


prompt$ unzip filename.zip