How To Install xarchiver on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install xarchiver
on Ubuntu 22.04.
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 22.04. 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 22.04
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 22.04, 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 22.04 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
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install xarchiver
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.