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, lrzip, 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, a (libraries), apk, arj, bzip, bzip2, bzip3, cab, cbz, compress, cpio, epub, exe (self-extracting Windows archives), gzip, iso, jar, jsonlz4, lha, lrzip, lz4, lzip, lzma, lzop, mozlz4, oxt, rar, snap, squashfs, tar, xpi, xz, zip, zpaq, zstd, tar.bz, tar.bz2, tar.bz3, 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 7zip, arj, lrzip, rar and zip archives are fully supported

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