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File compression

Files can be compressed in a variety of formats. Some of these can be opened by Ubuntu automatically. Others can be handled if you install extra packages.

Basic Archives

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For more complete information on supported formats and usage please see Archive Manager.

Non-archive formats

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Debian installer packages (.deb)

CD Images (.iso)

Java Archives (.jar)

Firefox extensions (.xpi)

Archive formats

7zip (.7z)

Archive Manager supports the 7zip compression format.

Ace (.ace)

Rar (.rar)

Multi-volume .rar archives

GNU Tar (.tar)

GNU Tar GZ (.tar.gz .tgz)

GNU Tar bzip2 (.tar.bz2)

GNU Tar Compress (.tar.Z)

Zip (.zip)

Command Line Usage

Extracting a tar.bz2 file

Creating a tar.bz2 file

For more information please refer to man tar.

Rar

unrar-free

Extracting  file1.ext Failed
Extracting  file2.ext Failed
2 Failed

unrar-nonfree

zip and unzip


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FileCompression (last edited 2013-12-13 23:41:14 by knome)