How To Install xarchiver on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install xarchiver in Fedora 36. xarchiver is Archive manager for Xfce

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install xarchiver on Fedora 36.

What is `xarchiver`

Xarchiver is a lightweight GTK frontend for manipulating 7z, arj, bzip2, gzip, iso, rar, lha, tar, zip, RPM and deb files. It allows you to create archives and add, extract, and delete files from them. Password protected archives in the arj, 7z, rar, and zip formats are supported.

We can use yum or dnf to install xarchiver on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install xarchiver.

Install xarchiver on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install xarchiver using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install xarchiver

Install xarchiver on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install xarchiver using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install xarchiver

How To Uninstall xarchiver on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the xarchiver package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove xarchiver

xarchiver Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/xarchiver
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/e2
/usr/lib/.build-id/e2/2aa7443cca56cdee4d499e32535229768bb6d7
/usr/libexec/thunar-archive-plugin
/usr/libexec/thunar-archive-plugin/xarchiver.tap
/usr/share/applications/xarchiver.desktop
/usr/share/doc/xarchiver
/usr/share/doc/xarchiver/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/xarchiver/README
/usr/share/doc/xarchiver/ch01.html
/usr/share/doc/xarchiver/ch01s01.html
/usr/share/doc/xarchiver/ch01s02.html
/usr/share/doc/xarchiver/ch01s03.html
/usr/share/doc/xarchiver/ch02.html
/usr/share/doc/xarchiver/ch02s01.html
/usr/share/doc/xarchiver/ch02s02.html
/usr/share/doc/xarchiver/ch03.html
/usr/share/doc/xarchiver/ch03s01.html
/usr/share/doc/xarchiver/ch03s02.html
/usr/share/doc/xarchiver/ch03s03.html
/usr/share/doc/xarchiver/ch03s04.html
/usr/share/doc/xarchiver/ch04.html
/usr/share/doc/xarchiver/ch04s01.html
/usr/share/doc/xarchiver/ch04s02.html
/usr/share/doc/xarchiver/ch04s03.html
/usr/share/doc/xarchiver/ch04s04.html
/usr/share/doc/xarchiver/ch04s05.html
/usr/share/doc/xarchiver/ch04s06.html
/usr/share/doc/xarchiver/images
/usr/share/doc/xarchiver/images/add_dialog.png
/usr/share/doc/xarchiver/images/archive_comment_dialog.png
/usr/share/doc/xarchiver/images/archive_properties.png
/usr/share/doc/xarchiver/images/extract_dialog.png
/usr/share/doc/xarchiver/images/multi_extract_dialog.png
/usr/share/doc/xarchiver/images/new_dialog.png
/usr/share/doc/xarchiver/images/password_dialog.png
/usr/share/doc/xarchiver/images/pref_dialog.png
/usr/share/doc/xarchiver/index.html
/usr/share/doc/xarchiver/xarchiver.css
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/xarchiver.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/apps/xarchiver.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/xarchiver.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/xarchiver.svg
/usr/share/licenses/xarchiver
/usr/share/licenses/xarchiver/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/xarchiver.mo
/usr/share/locale/ast/LC_MESSAGES/xarchiver.mo
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/xarchiver.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/xarchiver.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/xarchiver.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/xarchiver.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/xarchiver.mo
/usr/share/locale/dz/LC_MESSAGES/xarchiver.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/xarchiver.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/xarchiver.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/xarchiver.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/xarchiver.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/xarchiver.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/xarchiver.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/xarchiver.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/xarchiver.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/xarchiver.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/xarchiver.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/xarchiver.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/xarchiver.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/xarchiver.mo
/usr/share/locale/kk/LC_MESSAGES/xarchiver.mo
/usr/share/locale/ku/LC_MESSAGES/xarchiver.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/xarchiver.mo
/usr/share/locale/lv/LC_MESSAGES/xarchiver.mo
/usr/share/locale/ms/LC_MESSAGES/xarchiver.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/xarchiver.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/xarchiver.mo
/usr/share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/xarchiver.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/xarchiver.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/xarchiver.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_PT/LC_MESSAGES/xarchiver.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/xarchiver.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/xarchiver.mo
/usr/share/locale/si/LC_MESSAGES/xarchiver.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/xarchiver.mo
/usr/share/locale/sq/LC_MESSAGES/xarchiver.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/xarchiver.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/xarchiver.mo
/usr/share/locale/te/LC_MESSAGES/xarchiver.mo
/usr/share/locale/th/LC_MESSAGES/xarchiver.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/xarchiver.mo
/usr/share/locale/ug/LC_MESSAGES/xarchiver.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/xarchiver.mo
/usr/share/locale/ur/LC_MESSAGES/xarchiver.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/xarchiver.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/xarchiver.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/xarchiver.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/xarchiver.1.gz
/usr/share/pixmaps/xarchiver
/usr/share/pixmaps/xarchiver/xarchiver-add.png
/usr/share/pixmaps/xarchiver/xarchiver-close.png
/usr/share/pixmaps/xarchiver/xarchiver-extract.png
/usr/share/pixmaps/xarchiver/xarchiver-green.png
/usr/share/pixmaps/xarchiver/xarchiver-html.png
/usr/share/pixmaps/xarchiver/xarchiver-red.png

References

xarchiver website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install xarchiver on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).