#### Beyond Linux® From Scratch (systemd Edition) - Version r13.0-491

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# xarchiver-0.5.4.26

## Introduction to xarchiver

XArchiver is a GTK+ archive manager with support for tar, xz, bzip2, gzip, zip, 7z, rar, lzo and many other archive formats.

### Note

Development versions of BLFS may not build or run some packages properly if LFS or dependencies have been updated since the most recent stable versions of the books.

### Note

xarchiver is only a command line or graphical interface to archiving utilities such as tar and zip.

### Package Information

- Download (HTTP): https://github.com/ib/xarchiver/archive/0.5.4.26/xarchiver-0.5.4.26.tar.gz

- Download MD5 sum: 47e405196a0a9d98d0d356b4dae11701

- Download size: 1.1 MB

- Estimated disk space required: 11 MB

- Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU

### xarchiver Dependencies

#### Required

GTK-3.24.52 and Intltool-0.51.0

#### Optional (Runtime)

7zip-26.01, cpio-2.15, LZO-2.10, UnRar-7.2.4, Zip-3.0, and unzip

## Installation of xarchiver

BLFS provides unzip as a symlink to bsdunzip from libarchive-3.8.7, but it doesn't work for xarchiver. Adapt xarchiver to use 7zip-26.01 for handling `.zip` files by default instead:

    sed '/TOGGLE.*prefer_unzip/s/TRUE/FALSE/' -i src/pref_dialog.c

### Note

If you've already installed and run this package before (maybe in another distro if your `/home` is a partition shared with that distro), it's likely already configured to prefer unzip. Unset the “Prefer unzip for zip files” checkbox in the “Action => Preferences” dialog to change the configuration.

Install xarchiver by running the following commands:

    ./configure  --prefix=/usr               \
                 --libexecdir=/usr/lib/xfce4 \
                 --docdir=/usr/share/doc/xarchiver-0.5.4.26 &&
    make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the `root` user:

    make install

### Note

This package installs icon files into the `/usr/share/icons/hicolor` hierarchy and desktop files into the `/usr/share/applications` hierarchy. You can improve system performance and memory usage by updating `/usr/share/icons/hicolor/index.theme` and `/usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache`. To perform the update you must have GTK-3.24.52 installed (for the icon cache) and desktop-file-utils-0.28 (for the desktop cache) and issue the following commands as the `root` user:

    gtk-update-icon-cache -qtf /usr/share/icons/hicolor &&
    update-desktop-database -q

## Command Explanations

`--libexecdir=/usr/lib/xfce4`: This switch fixes the location for the thunar-archive-plugin, so it will work if thunar-4.20.8 is installed.

## Contents

Installed Program: xarchiver
Installed Libraries: None
Installed Directories: /usr/lib/xfce4/thunar-archive-plugin, /usr/share/doc/xarchiver-0.5.4.26, and /usr/share/pixmaps/xarchiver

### Short Descriptions

xarchiver | is a GTK+ archive manager

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