How To Install lxqt-archiver 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 lxqt-archiver on Ubuntu.

What is `lxqt-archiver`

lxqt-archiver is:

LXQt Archiver is an archive manager for the LXQt 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.

LXQt Archiver 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)

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

This package contain the LXQt archiver.

There are three methods to install lxqt-archiver 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 lxqt-archiver Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install lxqt-archiver

Install lxqt-archiver Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install lxqt-archiver

Install lxqt-archiver 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 lxqt-archiver using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install lxqt-archiver

How To Uninstall lxqt-archiver on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the lxqt-archiver package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove lxqt-archiver

Uninstall lxqt-archiver And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove lxqt-archiver

Remove lxqt-archiver Configurations and Data

To remove lxqt-archiver configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge lxqt-archiver

Remove lxqt-archiver configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge lxqt-archiver

Dependencies

lxqt-archiver have the following dependencies:

References

lxqt-archiver website

Summary

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