Xarchiver
Ingo Brückl (originally Giuseppe Torelli)
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Xarchiver is a lightweight graphical archive manager for Linux and FreeBSD that depends only on the GTK libraries and is not tied to any desktop environment, so it is common on Xfce, LXDE and low-powered machines. It creates ZIP, 7Z and TAR archives with GZ, BZ2, XZ or ZST, and also opens RAR (via unrar), ARJ, LHA and CPIO, plus DEB and RPM packages even without their package managers. It suits a lab computer or small server with a minimal desktop. Limitation: it drives the system’s command-line tools, so each format needs the matching tool installed.
Ratings & Reviews
| Licence type | Completely Free, Open Source |
|---|---|
| Licence terms | Open source under the GNU GPL version 2 or later: free for any use, including commercial, with no registration. In most distributions it is installed from the distribution’s package repository; the GitHub releases page offers source code to build. |
| Platforms | Linux |
| Engineering field | Architecture, Civil Engineering, Electrical & Electronics, Mechanical Engineering |
| Tool type | Compression & Archives |
| Vendor site | github.com |
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Last verified: 2026-10-16
