Command not found after installing 7z - ubuntu

Question

thanks so much for your help. First ever questions here:) Just getting started with linux / ubuntu. have dabbled for years but fully converted recently... anywhoo...

I installed 7z but the command is not found. I restarted the computer to hopefully refresh commands but that didn't help either..

here is what I did:

sudo apt-get install p7zip
sudo apt-get install p7zip-full

then tried:

7z e [file-name].xz

and

7za e [file-name].xz

then I read up the man file but still nothing. every time i get the following reply:

/usr/local/bin/7z: 2: /usr/local/bin/7z: /usr/local/lib/p7zip/7z: not found

thanks so much already for the help!

Answer 1

I had the same problem. Use sudo apt-get install p7zip-full to solve this.

Answer 2

figured it out!

the path in the bin file was pointing to the wrong place.

i needed to switch the direction from the

usr/local/lib/p7zip/ 

directory to

usr/lib/p7zip/

directory....

Answer 3

/usr/lib/p7zip/7z x your_file_name can fix the issue.

Or you can edit usr/local/bin/7z :

sudo vim /usr/local/bin/7z

replacing:

/usr/local/lib/p7zip/7z

with:

/usr/lib/p7zip/7z

The result is as follows:

(base) j@lab:~/doc/code$ 7z x deep_motion_mag-master.7z
/usr/local/bin/7z: 2: /usr/local/bin/7z: /usr/local/lib/p7zip/7z: not found
(base) j@lab:~/doc/code$ 7z x deep.7z
7-Zip [64] 9.20  Copyright (c) 1999-2010 Igor Pavlov  2010-11-18
p7zip Version 9.20 (locale=en_US.UTF-8,Utf16=on,HugeFiles=on,32 CPUs)
Processing archive: deep.7z
Extracting  deep
Extracting  deep/configs
...

Every user can use 7z.