You can use the Archive Manager application to create, view, modify, or unpack an archive. An archive is a file that acts as a container for other files. An archive can contain many files, folders, and subfolders, usually in compressed form.
Archive Manager provides only a graphical interface, and relies on command-line utilities such as tar, gzip, and bzip2 for archive operations.
If you have the appropriate command-line tools installed on your system, Archive Manager supports the archive formats listed in the following table.
| Format | Filename Extension |
|---|---|
| 7-Zip archive | .7z |
| WinAce archive | .ace |
| ALZip archive | .alz |
| AIX small indexed archive | .ar |
| ARJ archive | .arj |
| Cabinet file | .cab |
| UNIX CPIO archive | .cpio |
| Debian Linux package | .deb |
| ISO-9660 CD disc image | .iso |
| Java archive | .jar |
| Java enterprise archive | .ear |
| Java web archive | .war |
| LHA archive | .lha, .lzh |
| WinRAR compressed archive | .rar |
| RAR Archived Comic Book | .cbr |
| RPM Linux package | .rpm |
| Uncompressed tar archive | .tar |
| Tar archive compressed with bzip | .tar.bz or .tbz |
| Tar archive compressed with bzip2 | .tar.bz2 or .tbz2 |
| Tar archive compressed with gzip | .tar.gz or .tgz |
| Tar archive compressed with lzip | .tar.lz or .tlz |
| Tar archive compressed with lzop | .tar.lzo or .tzo |
| Tar archive compressed with compress | .tar.Z or .taz |
| Tar archive compressed with 7zip | .tar.7z |
| Stuffit archives | .bin or .sit |
| PKZIP or WinZip archive | .zip |
| ZIP Archived Comic Book | .cbz |
| Zoo archive | .zoo |
The most common archive format on UNIX and Linux systems is the tar archive compressed with gzip or bzip2.
The most common archive format on Microsoft Windows systems is the archive created with PKZIP or WinZip.
A compressed non-archive file is a file that is created when you use bzip2, gzip, lzip, lzop, compress or rzip to compress a non-archive file. For example, file.txt.gz is created when you use gzip to compress file.txt.
You can use Archive Manager to create, open and extract a compressed non-archive file.