Beyond Linux® From Scratch (System V Edition) - Version r12.4-426

Chapter 41. Other X-based Programs

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.

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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.

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

Package Information

xarchiver Dependencies

Required

GTK-3.24.51

Optional (Runtime)

7zip-25.01, cpio-2.15, LZO-2.10, UnRar-7.2.1, Zip-3.0, and unzip

Installation of xarchiver

BLFS provides unzip as a symlink to bsdunzip from libarchive-3.8.2, but it doesn't work for xarchiver. Adapt xarchiver to use 7zip-25.01 for handling .zip files by default instead: 

sed '/TOGGLE.*prefer_unzip/s/TRUE/FALSE/' -i src/pref_dialog.c
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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
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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-3.24.51 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-4.20.6 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