Archive files and folders

The goal of this documentation is to show the features of Engrampa, the official archive manager of Trisquel GNU/Linux along with an example of using it.

Engrampa is the official archive manager for the MATE Desktop Environment, that is part of the standard edition of Trisquel. It is a graphical front-end to archiving utilities such as tar and zip. It is a fork of File Roller.

Engrampa supports most common operations such as creating, modifying and extracting files from an archive. You can also view the contents of an archive and open files contained within the archive.

Main Features

  • Create and modify archives
  • View the content of an archive
  • View a file contained in an archive
  • Extract files from the archive

Supported formats (and their file extensions)

  • Tar (.tar) archives, including those compressed with
    • gzip (.tar.gz, .tgz), bzip (.tar.bz, .tbz)
    • bzip2 (.tar.bz2, .tbz2)
    • compress (.tar.Z, .taz)
    • lzip (.tar.lz, .tlz)
    • lzop (.tar.lzo, .tzo)
    • lzma (.tar.lzma)
    • xz (.tar.xz)
  • Zip archives (.zip)
  • Jar archives (.jar, .ear, .war)
  • 7z archives (.7z)
  • iso9660 CD images (.iso)
  • Lha archives (.lzh)
  • Single files compressed with
    • gzip (.gz)
    • bzip (.bz)
    • bzip2 (.bz2)
    • compress (.Z)
    • lzip (.lz)
    • lzop (.lzo)
    • lzma (.lzma)
    • xz (.xz)

Using Engrampa

This is an example how to create and read an archive with Engrampa.

  • In the Main Menu go to Accessoiries→Engrampa Archive Manager

Create an archive

  • In the Menu of Engrampa select Archive→New to create a new archive

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  • Here you can quickly select a name for the new archive and:
    • Choose the location for the archive that will be created
    • Select a File Format: By Extension
    • Select Other Options like a password and if to split the archive into volumes (where you also can set the size of the volumes in MB)
  • Select Create if you are ready

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  • Add files and folders to the created archive by selecting Edit→Add Files... or Add a Folder...

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  • Now, you are already done! The archive is created. You can now escape Engrampa.

Open an archive within Caja

If you double-click on an archive, Engrampa will pop up and will list its content.

Further Reading

http://trisquel.info/en/forum/archive-file-formats

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Revisions

11/11/2014 - 16:04
muhammed
03/22/2024 - 05:31
knife