About Xarchiver
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## About Xarchiver

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 xdg-utils is optional.

Xarchiver presents the following characteristic:

- Archive directories can be browsed just like a file manager

- Mime icon for each of the archive entries

- The most used archiver's command line options are supported in the Add and Extract dialogs

- Tabs Firefox style support

- Multi-extract facility

- Dump of the whole archive content as HTML or text file

- Context menu on each of the archive entries with cut/copy/paste/rename abilities

- All archives are detected by their magic header and not by their extension

- Drag and drop from and to Xarchiver window

- Progress window when using Xarchiver from the command line or from a file-manager

- ARJ, RAR and ZIP archive comment are supported

- Ability to convert the archive to self-extracting for those archive types which support it

- Smart detection of 7zip, arj, rar and zip password encrypted archives

- All the the output of the command line archiver is displayed in the Xarchiver window

- 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

- Debian and RPM packages are handled internally, their package managers are NOT required

- Password encrypted archives are fully supported

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