How To Install xarchiver on Debian 10

Learn how to install xarchiver on Debian 10 with this tutorial. xarchiver is GTK+ frontend for most used compression formats

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install xarchiver on Debian 10.

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 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, zip and lrzip formats are supported.

There are three methods to install xarchiver on Debian 10. 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 Debian. 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 Debian 10

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 Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove xarchiver

Remove xarchiver Configurations and Data

To remove xarchiver configuration and data from Debian 10 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

Dependencies

xarchiver have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install xarchiver package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.