* Tar archives uncompressed (.tar) or compressed with It kinda makes sense to have individually installable archive support, but I thought 7-zip would give everything I needed it to me in one step.and it seems that the command line version does.įile Roller is an archive manager for the GNOME environment.įile Roller is only a graphical interface to archiving utilities such as tar and zip. I am just trying to figure out how this all works. Sorry, I reread this and I think I am coming off a little bit righteous.

7z files) zip, rar and several other formats and why does 7zip when run from the CLI actually extract the files from the. Ok, but why does the package manager describe 7-zip as being able to handle (in addition to. 7zip you get support for 7zip, when you install unrar-free you get support for. If you want a gui frontend to any of these archive formats you should use Archive Manger which will support compressing and extracting any archival formats you have installed on your system, remember everything is pretty modular in linux, when you install.

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