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Xarchiver is a small and lightweight archive manager.
I developed it to manage archives without depending from a special Desktop Environment
like KDE or GNOME, so Xarchiver requires only the GTK+ toolkit
to work. The package <span class="emphasis"><em>xdg-utils</em></span> is optional.
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Xarchiver presents the following characteristic:
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Archive directories can be browsed just like a file manager
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Mime icon for each of the archive entries
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The most used archiver's command line options are supported in the Add and Extract dialogs
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Tabs Firefox style support
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Multi-extract facility
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Dump of the whole archive content as HTML or text file
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Context menu on each of the archive entries with cut/copy/paste/rename abilities
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All archives are detected by their magic header and not by their extension
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Drag and drop from and to Xarchiver window
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Progress window when using Xarchiver from the command line or from a file-manager
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ARJ, RAR and ZIP archive comment are supported
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Ability to convert the archive to self-extracting for those archive types which support it
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Smart detection of 7zip, arj, rar and zip password encrypted archives
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All the the output of the command line archiver is displayed in the Xarchiver window
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All common formats are supported: 7z, arj, bzip2, compress, cpio, gzip, lha, lrzip, lz4, lzip, lzma, lzop, rar, tar, xz, zip, zstd, tar.bz2, tar.gz, tar.lrz, tar.lz, tar.lz4, tar.lzma, tar.lzop, tar.xz, tar.Z, tar.zst, deb and rpm packages
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Debian and RPM packages are handled internally, their package managers are NOT required
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Password encrypted archives are fully supported
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