Alternatives to Xarchiver
A lightweight GTK archive manager for Linux and FreeBSD that works independently of the desktop environment. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Xarchiver
A lightweight GTK archive manager for Linux and FreeBSD that works independently of the desktop environment.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Xarchiver.
File Roller
The GNOME desktop's archive manager for creating, browsing and extracting compressed archives.
File Roller is GNOME's GPL-licensed archive manager, integrated with the GNOME desktop rather than independent of any desktop environment.
Engrampa
The MATE desktop's graphical archive manager for creating, browsing and extracting compressed files.
Engrampa is the MATE desktop's GPL-licensed archive manager, integrating with the Caja file manager and relying on external tools for many formats.
Ark
KDE's graphical archive manager for browsing, creating, extracting and modifying compressed archives.
Ark is KDE's archive manager with previews without extracting and frequent releases, also running on Windows, but fitting best in KDE Plasma.
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 LXQt desktops rather than GTK ones.
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 on Linux, Windows and macOS and includes a file manager, with a busier interface than Xarchiver.
Deepin Archive Manager
A lightweight Linux archive manager from the Deepin desktop for creating and extracting archives.
Deepin Archive Manager offers a simple compress and extract workflow but depends on Deepin's DTK libraries and fits best on the Deepin desktop.
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.
archivemount
A FUSE filesystem that mounts tar, zip and other archives so they can be browsed like folders.
dtrx
A command-line tool that extracts many archive formats with one consistent command.
ouch
Command-line tool that compresses and extracts archives without format-specific flags.
GNU Tar
The GNU command-line tool for creating, extracting, updating and listing tar archives.
