Extracting archived files

Clair Ching — Mon, 19 May 2008 18:40:16 +0000

For lack of space, people compress files before copying them or sending them via email. If you guys didn’t talk about the archiving, you might have some headaches especially if you haven’t used Linux before. There are tools like XArchiver and when you’re using Gnome, there’s FileRoller and in KDE you have Ark. These are all graphical ways for you to use the tools like the tar compression and zip compression applications. I haven’t seen a distro without one of these three yet.

For users of Gnome and Kde, you could simply click the file you want to extract. You might have some trouble though if it’s a rar file you need to extract. If that’s the case, you need to download unrar from the repositories first. That or you get it as source then build it.

I also learned recently about the 7zip archived files. I haven’t encountered them myself but there is a Linux tool for compressing and extracting them. P7Zip is the project you need to check out if you have to open some 7zip files for work. Well, if ever you couldn’t use the graphical tools after installing 7zip, there’s an online guide on how to make the compression work for you. It’s called the 7zip Helper.

I hope that helps!

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