What is gnochive?

gnochive is an archive program for handling all types of archives while providing an GUI interface.

Creation:                       -RAR
=========                       -tar (plain,gz,bz2,Z,custom)
                                -single gz,bz2
                                -zip
                                -lha/lhz
                                -zoo

Open/Extract/View/Test:         -RAR
=======================         -tar (plain,gz,bz2,Z,custom)
                                -single gz,bz2
                                -zip
                                -arj
                                -ace
                                -lha/lhz
                                -zoo
                                -jar(tho jar doesn't need any special handling
                                besides normal zip handling)
                                -rpm
                                -cpio

Update: ======= -tar (plain,gz,bz2,Z)
-zip -RAR -zoo -lha/lhz

The program now supports:

path checking can be done in the following ways :
- autodetect archivers
- test configfile parsed archivers paths
extracting
creating of archives (gnochive can process the archives automaticly after create)
deleting files from archives
updating files in archives
viewing files in archives
testing archive files
adding/removing comments from archives (zip & rar only has support for comments)
converting archives to SFX archives (so far RAR only supports it)
converting tar archives (eg. tar.gz->tar.bz2)
files pass-locking of archives
different dictionary size
different compresion levels (compress has no support for comp level)
nautilus support (gnochive can be used to view/extract/create archives using nautilus)

How do I set it up?

The file INSTALL gives instructions. On supported systems the compilation process should be automatic.

You will need an ANSI C compiler -- gcc is recommended. Versions 2.7.2/2.7.2.2 are known to work .

You will also need:

GTK+ 1.2.0 or above - http://www.gtk.org
scrollkeeper 1.4.0 or above - http://download.sourceforge.net/scrollkeeper-1.4.0.tar.gz
gnome-vfs, gnome-vfs-devel
bonobo (not required so far)

Packers

RAR - can be found at www.rarsoft.com
After unpacking rar (its a SFX archive) you should put the rar file and default.sfx for conversion to SFX of arcives in /usr/bin gzip/gunzip - bzip2/(bunzip) - tar - the latest version of tar does not take flag I for decompressing tbz2
files , gnochive has "-j" flag option in the property box zip/unzip - lha - http://www2m.meshnet.or.jp/~dolphin/lha/lha-unix.htm zoo - unarj - unarj by default does not support creating subdirectories and verbose
listing. So for accessing arj archive it is recommanded a patch for unarj 2.43 that can be found on gnochive home page. There is also rpm support for patched version of unarj unace - linunace 2.04 is needed (www.winace.com) compress -

Note: The appplet_widget library is not required anymore gnochive can be built fine witout it using ./configure --disable-gapplet. (gnochive applet is just for future developing purposes so it's not really necesarly to built it!)

How can I contact the author?

You can email me at <cooly@users.sourceforge.net>