How To Install engrampa on Ubuntu

Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )

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Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install engrampa on Ubuntu.

What is `engrampa`

engrampa is:

Engrampa is an archive manager for the MATE environment. It allows you to:

Create and modify archives.
View the content of an archive.
View a file contained in an archive.
Extract files from the archive.

Engrampa supports the following formats:

Tar (.tar) archives, including those compressed with gzip (.tar.gz, .tgz), bzip (.tar.bz, .tbz), bzip2 (.tar.bz2, .tbz2), compress (.tar.Z, .taz), lzip (.tar.lz, .tlz), lzop (.tar.lzo, .tzo), lzma (.tar.lzma) and xz (.tar.xz)
Zip archives (.zip)
Jar archives (.jar, .ear, .war)
7z archives (.7z)
iso9660 CD images (.iso)
Lha archives (.lzh)
Single files compressed with gzip (.gz), bzip (.bz), bzip2 (.bz2), compress (.Z), lzip (.lz), lzop (.lzo), lzma (.lzma) and xz (.xz)

Engrampa doesn’t perform archive operations by itself, but relies on standard tools for this.

There are three methods to install engrampa on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install engrampa Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install engrampa using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install engrampa

Install engrampa Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install engrampa using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install engrampa

Install engrampa Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install engrampa using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install engrampa

How To Uninstall engrampa on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the engrampa package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove engrampa

Uninstall engrampa And Its Dependencies

To uninstall engrampa and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove engrampa

Remove engrampa Configurations and Data

To remove engrampa configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge engrampa

Remove engrampa configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove engrampa configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge engrampa

Dependencies

engrampa have the following dependencies:

References

engrampa website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install engrampa package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.