Archive helpers checks that untrusted zip or tar archives can be safely extracted and extracts them.
Installation and usage requires Python 3.9 or newer. The software is tested with Python 3.9 on AlmaLinux 9 release.
Installation on Linux distributions is done by using the RPM Package Manager. See how to configure the PAS-jakelu RPM repositories to setup necessary software sources.
After the repository has been added, the package can be installed by running the following command:
sudo dnf install python3-archive-helpers
Archive helpers provides archive_helpers.extract.extract
function for
checking untrusted zip or tar archives and extracting them. Simply run:
>>> from archive_helpers.extract import extract >>> extract("<archive_path>", "<extract_path>")
Create a virtual environment:
python3 -m venv venv
Run the following to activate the virtual environment:
source venv/bin/activate
Install the required software with commands:
pip install --upgrade pip==20.2.4 setuptools pip install -r requirements_github.txt pip install .
To deactivate the virtual environment, run deactivate
.
To reactivate it, run the source
command above.
Copyright (C) 2023 CSC - IT Center for Science Ltd.
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
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