Alternatives to Deepin Archive Manager
A lightweight Linux archive manager from the Deepin desktop for creating and extracting archives. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Deepin Archive Manager
A lightweight Linux archive manager from the Deepin desktop for creating and extracting archives.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Deepin Archive Manager.
File Roller
The GNOME desktop's archive manager for creating, browsing and extracting compressed archives.
File Roller is GNOME's archive manager, integrated with that desktop rather than Deepin, and lets you browse archive contents before extracting without needing Deepin's DTK libraries.
Ark
KDE's graphical archive manager for browsing, creating, extracting and modifying compressed archives.
Ark is KDE's archive manager with previews and disc image support, released on the KDE Gear schedule, and it also runs on Windows as well as Linux.
PeaZip
A cross-platform archive manager that reads over two hundred formats and has a real file manager built in.
PeaZip reads over 200 formats, runs on Windows, macOS and Linux, and adds encryption and file manager features, though its interface is busier than Deepin's simple window.
Xarchiver
A lightweight GTK archive manager for Linux and FreeBSD that works independently of the desktop environment.
Xarchiver is a lightweight GTK archiver that does not depend on any desktop environment, so it avoids Deepin's DTK libraries, with formats depending on installed command-line archivers.
Engrampa
The MATE desktop's graphical archive manager for creating, browsing and extracting compressed files.
Engrampa is the MATE desktop's archive manager, integrating with the Caja file manager instead of Deepin, and relies on external command-line tools for many formats.
Arqiver
A simple Qt archive manager for Linux built on libarchive, gzip and 7z.
Arqiver is a small Qt archive manager built on libarchive and 7z, suited to lightweight Qt or LXQt desktops, with fewer features than larger archive managers.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
p7zip
Command-line port of 7-Zip's compression tools for POSIX systems.
bsdtar (libarchive)
Command-line archivers built on libarchive that read and write tar, zip, cpio, ISO and more.
ouch
Command-line tool that compresses and extracts archives without format-specific flags.
