How To Install xarchiver on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install xarchiver on CentOS 7. xarchiver is Archive manager for Xfce

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install xarchiver on CentOS 7.

What is xarchiver

Xarchiver is a lightweight GTK2 only 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 CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install xarchiver.

Install xarchiver on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

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

sudo yum -y install xarchiver

Install xarchiver on CentOS 7 Using dnf

If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first. Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache

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

sudo dnf -y install xarchiver

How To Uninstall xarchiver on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove xarchiver

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install xarchiver on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.