Xarchiver and Engrampa the same?

#1

I had a problem in which xarchiver could not open a zip file.

So I used Engrampa which did open the zip file.

Both programs look almost exactly the same.

They shared 3 icons each.

Do I need both?

Thanks.

#2

I don't think so. I only use Engrampa.
I don't have or use xarchiver or any other archiver for that matter.

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#3

I would say no you don't need both programs, but what file where you trying to open?

Here is what both support:

Engrampa supports the following formats:

  • Tar (.tar) archives, including those compressed with
    gzip (.tar.gz, .tgz), bzip (.tar.bz, .tbz), bzip2 (.tar.bz2, .tbz2),
    compress (.tar.Z, .taz), lzip (.tar.lz, .tlz), lzop (.tar.lzo, .tzo),
    lzma (.tar.lzma) and xz (.tar.xz)
  • Zip archives (.zip)
  • Jar archives (.jar, .ear, .war)
  • 7z archives (.7z)
  • iso9660 CD images (.iso)
  • Lha archives (.lzh)
  • Single files compressed with gzip (.gz), bzip (.bz), bzip2 (.bz2),
    compress (.Z), lzip (.lz), lzop (.lzo), lzma (.lzma) and xz (.xz)

Xarchiver is a lightweight desktop independent GTK+ frontend for manipulating
xz, 7z, lzma, arj, bzip2, gzip, rar, tar, zip, rpm, lz4, compress, zstd, lzip,
lrzip, lzop, lha and deb files.

#4

I was trying to open a zip containing an sqlite file.

I uninstalled xarchiver.

I was hoping Engrampa had a way to configure it.

I would like to get rid of the prompt whenever I want to delete a file in an archive.