How To Install xarchiver 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 xarchiver on Ubuntu.
What is xarchiver
xarchiver is:
Xarchiver is a lightweight desktop independent GTK+ frontend for manipulating xz, 7z, lzma, arj, bzip2, gzip, rar, tar, zip, rpm, lz4, compress, zstd, lzip, lrzip, lzop, lha, ar files including the deb format and self-extracting exe files, if they were internally compressed with either 7zip, arj, lha, rar or zip. Multi-threading tools such as lbzip2, pbzip2, pigz and plzip can be used as replacements for their respective counterparts.
Xarchiver allows you to create archives and add, extract, and delete files from them. Password protected archives in the arj, 7z, rar, zip and lrzip formats are supported.
There are three methods to install xarchiver 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 xarchiver Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install xarchiver using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install xarchiver
Install xarchiver Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install xarchiver using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install xarchiver
Install xarchiver 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 xarchiver using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install xarchiver
How To Uninstall xarchiver on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the xarchiver package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove xarchiver
Uninstall xarchiver And Its Dependencies
To uninstall xarchiver and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove xarchiver
Remove xarchiver Configurations and Data
To remove xarchiver configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge xarchiver
Remove xarchiver configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove xarchiver configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge xarchiver
Dependencies
xarchiver have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install xarchiver package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.