source: general/sysutils/unzip.xml@ 86eaa277

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  <!ENTITY unzip-download-ftp  "ftp://ftp.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/src/unzip552.tar.gz">
  <!ENTITY unzip-md5sum        "9d23919999d6eac9217d1f41472034a9">
  <!ENTITY unzip-size          "1.1 MB">
  <!ENTITY unzip-buildsize     "6.7 MB">
  <!ENTITY unzip-time          "0.1 SBU">
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<sect1 id="unzip" xreflabel="UnZip-&unzip-version;">
  <?dbhtml filename="unzip.html"?>

  <sect1info>
    <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
    <date>$Date$</date>
  </sect1info>

  <title>UnZip-&unzip-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="unzip">
    <primary sortas="a-UnZip">UnZip</primary>
  </indexterm>

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title>Introduction to UnZip</title>

    <para>The <application>UnZip</application> package contains
    <filename>ZIP</filename> extraction utilities. These are useful for
    extracting files from <filename>ZIP</filename> archives.
    <filename>ZIP</filename> archives are created with
    <application>PKZIP</application> or <application>Info-ZIP</application>
    utilities, primarily in a DOS environment.</para>

    <caution>
      <para>The <application>UnZip</application> package has some locale
      related issues. See the discussion below in the
      <xref linkend="unzip-locale-issues"/> section. A more general
      discussion of these problems can be found on the
      <xref linkend="locale-issues"/> page.</para>
    </caution>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <listitem>
        <para>Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&unzip-download-http;"/></para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download (FTP): <ulink url="&unzip-download-ftp;"/></para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download MD5 sum: &unzip-md5sum;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download size: &unzip-size;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Estimated disk space required: &unzip-buildsize;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Estimated build time: &unzip-time;</para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
    <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/unzip"/></para>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 id="unzip-locale-issues">
    <title>UnZip Locale Issues</title>

    <note>
      <para>Use of <application>UnZip</application> in the
      <application>JDK</application>, <application>Mozilla</application>,
      <application>DocBook</application> or any other BLFS package
      installation is not a problem, as BLFS instructions never use
      <application>UnZip</application> to extract a file with non-ASCII
      characters in the file's name.</para>
    </note>

    <para>The <application>UnZip</application> package assumes that filenames
    stored in the ZIP archives created on non-Unix systems are encoded in
    CP850, and that they should be converted to ISO-8859-1 when writing files
    onto the filesystem. Such assumptions are not always valid. In fact,
    inside the ZIP archive, filenames are encoded in the DOS codepage that is
    in use in the relevant country, and the filenames on disk should be in
    the locale encoding. In MS Windows, the OemToChar() C function (from
    <filename>User32.DLL</filename>) does the correct conversion (which is
    indeed the conversion from CP850 to a superset of ISO-8859-1 if MS
    Windows is set up to use the US English language), but there is no
    equivalent in Linux.</para>

    <para>When using <command>unzip</command> to unpack a ZIP archive
    containing non-ASCII filenames, the filenames are damaged because
    <command>unzip</command> uses improper conversion when any of its
    encoding assumptions are incorrect. For example, in the ru_RU.KOI8-R
    locale, conversion of filenames from CP866 to KOI8-R is required, but
    conversion from CP850 to ISO-8859-1 is done, which produces filenames
    consisting of undecipherable characters instead of words (the closest
    equivalent understandable example for English-only users is rot13). There
    are several ways around this limitation:</para>

    <para>1) For unpacking ZIP archives with filenames containing non-ASCII
    characters, use <ulink url="http://www.winzip.com/">WinZip</ulink> while-      running the <ulink url="http://www.winehq.com/">Wine</ulink> Windows
    emulator.</para>

    <para>2) After running <command>unzip</command>, fix the damage made to
    the filenames using the <command>convmv</command> tool
    (<ulink url="http://j3e.de/linux/convmv/"/>). The following is an example
    for the ru_RU.KOI8-R locale:</para>

    <blockquote>
      <para>Step 1. Undo the conversion done by
      <command>unzip</command>:</para>

<screen><userinput>convmv -f iso-8859-1 -t cp850 -r --nosmart --notest \
    <replaceable>&lt;/path/to/unzipped/files&gt;</replaceable></userinput></screen>

      <para>Step 2. Do the correct conversion instead:</para>

<screen><userinput>convmv -f cp866 -t koi8-r -r --nosmart --notest \
    <replaceable>&lt;/path/to/unzipped/files&gt;</replaceable></userinput></screen>
    </blockquote>

    <para>3) Apply this patch to unzip:
    <ulink url="https://bugzilla.altlinux.ru/attachment.cgi?id=532"/></para>

    <para>It allows to specify the assumed filename encoding in the ZIP
    archive using the <option>-O charset_name</option> option and the
    on-disk filename encoding using the <option>-I charset_name</option>
    option. Defaults: the on-disk filename encoding is the locale encoding,
    the encoding inside the ZIP archive is guessed according to the builtin
    table based on the locale encoding. For US English users, this still
    means that unzip converts from CP850 to ISO-8859-1 by default.</para>

    <para>Caveat: this method works only with 8-bit locale encodings, not
    with UTF-8. Attempting to use a patched <command>unzip</command> in UTF-8
    locales may result in a segmentation fault and is probably a security
    risk.</para>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of UnZip</title>

    <para>Install <application>UnZip</application> by running the following
    commands:</para>

<screen><userinput>make -f unix/Makefile LOCAL_UNZIP=-D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 linux</userinput></screen>

    <para>To test the results, issue: <command>make check</command>.</para>

    <para>Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>make prefix=/usr install</userinput></screen>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="commands">
    <title>Command Explanations</title>

    <para><parameter>linux</parameter>:
    This target in the <filename>Makefile</filename> makes assumptions
    that are useful for a Linux system when compiling the executables.
    To obtain alternatives to this target, use <command>make list</command></para>

    <para><parameter>LOCAL_UNZIP=...</parameter>:
    This sets the compilation flags to allow <application>UnZip</application>
    to handle files up to 4 GB.</para>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="content">
    <title>Contents</title>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>funzip, unzip, unzipfsx, zipgrep, and zipinfo</seg>
        <seg>None</seg>
        <seg>None</seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

    <variablelist>
      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>

      <varlistentry id="funzip">
        <term><command>funzip</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>allows the output of <command>unzip</command> commands to be
          redirected.</para>
          <indexterm zone="unzip funzip">
            <primary sortas="b-funzip">funzip</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="unzip-prog">
        <term><command>unzip</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>lists, tests or extracts files from a <filename>ZIP</filename>
          archive.</para>
          <indexterm zone="unzip unzip-prog">
            <primary sortas="b-unzip">unzip</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="unzipfsx">
        <term><command>unzipfsx</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>is a self-extracting stub that can be prepended to a
          <filename>ZIP</filename> archive.  Files in this format allow the
          recipient to decompress the archive without installing
          <application>UnZip</application>.</para>
          <indexterm zone="unzip unzipfsx">
            <primary sortas="b-unzipfsx">unzipfsx</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="zipgrep">
        <term><command>zipgrep</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>searches files in a <filename>ZIP</filename> archive for
          lines matching a pattern.</para>
          <indexterm zone="unzip zipgrep">
            <primary sortas="b-zipgrep">zipgrep</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="zipinfo">
        <term><command>zipinfo</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>produces technical information about the files in a
          <filename>ZIP</filename> archive, including file access permissions,
          encryption status, type of compression, etc.</para>
          <indexterm zone="unzip zipinfo">
            <primary sortas="b-zipinfo">zipinfo</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="libunzip">
        <term><filename class='libraryfile'>libunzip.so</filename></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>contains the API functions required by the
          <application>UnZip</application> programs.</para>
          <indexterm zone="unzip libunzip">
            <primary sortas="c-libunzip">libunzip.so</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

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