Engrampa is an archive manager utility for the MATE Environment. It’s a fork of Archive Manager (File Roller).
The software lets you you can create and modify archives, view the content of an archive, view and modify a file contained in the archive, and extract files from the archive.
Engrampa is free and open source software.
Supported file types:
- 7-Zip Compressed File (.7z)
- WinAce Compressed File (.ace)
- ALZip Compressed File (.alz)
- AIX Small Indexed Archive (.ar)
- ARC Archive (.arc)
- ARJ Compressed Archive (.arj)
- Cabinet File (.cab)
- UNIX CPIO Archive (.cpio)
- Debian Linux Package (.deb) [Read-only mode]
- ISO-9660 CD Disc Image (.iso) [Read-only mode]
- Java Archive (.jar)
- Java Enterprise archive (.ear)
- Java Web Archive (.war)
- LHA Archive (.lzh, .lha)
- WinRAR Compressed Archive (.rar)
- RAR Archived Comic Book (.cbr)
- RPM Linux Package (.rpm) [Read-only mode]
- Tape Archive File:
- uncompressed (.tar)
- or compressed with:
- gzip (.tar.gz , .tgz)
- brotli (.tar.br)
- bzip (.tar.bz , .tbz)
- bzip2 (.tar.bz2 , .tbz2)
- compress (.tar.Z , .taz)
- lrzip (.tar.lrz , .tlrz)
- lzip (.tar.lz , .tlz)
- lzop (.tar.lzo , .tzo)
- 7zip (.tar.7z)
- xz (.tar.xz)
- Stuffit Archives (.bin, .sit)
- ZIP Archive (.zip)
- ZIP Archived Comic Book (.cbz)
- ZOO Compressed Archive File (.zoo)
- Single files compressed with gzip (.gz), brotli (.br), bzip (.bz), bzip2 (.bz2), compress (.Z),
lrzip (.lrz), lzip (.lz), lzop (.lzo), rzip(.rz), xz (.xz), Zstandard (.zst).
Website: github.com/mate-desktop/engrampa
Support:
Developer: The MATE Developers
License: GNU General Public License v2.0

Engrampa is written in C. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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