Engrampa

Spec sheet

Purpose

Engrampa is the official archive manager for the MATE Desktop Environment and a graphical front end to utilities such as tar and zip.Read 11 Oct 2026 · wiki.mate-desktop.org

Intended users

The project describes Engrampa as an archive manager for the MATE desktop environment.Read 11 Oct 2026 · wiki.mate-desktop.org

Security

The opened Engrampa and MATE pages provide no security certification or compliance claims.Read 11 Oct 2026 · wiki.mate-desktop.org

Support

The Engrampa page links to the project's source code, bug tracker, and dependencies.Read 11 Oct 2026 · wiki.mate-desktop.org

Archive browsing

It can display archive contents and open files contained in an archive.Read 11 Oct 2026 · wiki.mate-desktop.org

Archive operations

It can create, modify, and extract files from archives.Read 11 Oct 2026 · wiki.mate-desktop.org

Build

The project page documents building from source with Meson-related project files or the listed autogen.sh and make procedure.Read 11 Oct 2026 · wiki.mate-desktop.org

Command line

Its command-line options include adding files to archives and extracting archives to a chosen folder or to a folder named after the archive.Read 11 Oct 2026 · wiki.mate-desktop.org

Distribution availability

MATE is available in official repositories for distributions including Debian, Fedora, Arch Linux, and Ubuntu.Read 11 Oct 2026 · mate-desktop.org

Environment

MATE describes itself as a desktop environment for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems.Read 11 Oct 2026 · mate-desktop.org

Integration

Engrampa is one of the applications included in the MATE desktop environment.Read 11 Oct 2026 · mate-desktop.org

Lineage

Engrampa is a fork of File Roller.Read 11 Oct 2026 · wiki.mate-desktop.org

Plans and prices

Every Engrampa plan and price →

Where Specifiction places it

• File Compression Software#17 of 367.6