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Engrampa

mate-desktop.org

  • Free plan
  • Linux
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What Engrampa is

Engrampa is the official archive manager for the MATE desktop environment on Linux. It provides a graphical front end to utilities such as tar and zip, allowing users to create, modify, and extract archives. The application can display archive contents and open files stored inside them. Its format list includes 7z, ACE, ALZ, AR, ARC, ARJ, CAB, CPIO, DEB, EPUB, ISO, JAR, EAR, WAR, LHA, RAR, CBR, RPM, TAR variants, ZIP, CBZ, ZOO, GZ, BR, BZ2, XZ, ZST, and others. Engrampa supports encrypted archives, split archives, and command-line tools. Command-line options can add files or extract to a chosen folder or a folder named after the archive. The project is a fork of File Roller and is included with MATE. MATE is available in official repositories for Debian, Fedora, Arch Linux, and Ubuntu. Engrampa is free and open source.

Who it suits

Engrampa suits Linux users of the MATE desktop who need graphical and command-line archive operations. It is useful when working with varied formats, encrypted archives, or split archives.

Good to know, and what to watch

  • Creates, modifies, and extracts archives
  • Supports many archive and package formats
  • Handles encrypted archives
  • Supports split archives
  • Offers command-line archive tools
  • Listed platform support is Linux
  • Designed as part of the MATE desktop environment
  • No security certification or compliance claims are provided

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Engrampa

Free

Open source

The verdict

Engrampa offers wide format coverage with graphical browsing, archive creation, encryption, splitting, and command-line controls. Its focus is Linux, particularly the MATE desktop environment, rather than a cross-platform archive utility.

What the maker publishes

Archive browsing
It can display archive contents and open files contained in an archive. source
Archive operations
It can create, modify, and extract files from archives. source
Build
The project page documents building from source with Meson-related project files or the listed autogen.sh and make procedure. source
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. source
Distribution availability
MATE is available in official repositories for distributions including Debian, Fedora, Arch Linux, and Ubuntu. source
Environment
MATE describes itself as a desktop environment for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems. source
Integration
Engrampa is one of the applications included in the MATE desktop environment. source
Intended users
The project describes Engrampa as an archive manager for the MATE desktop environment. source
Lineage
Engrampa is a fork of File Roller. source
Purpose
Engrampa is the official archive manager for the MATE Desktop Environment and a graphical front end to utilities such as tar and zip. source
Security
The opened Engrampa and MATE pages provide no security certification or compliance claims. source
Support
The Engrampa page links to the project's source code, bug tracker, and dependencies. source

Checked against the maker's pages on 11 Oct 2026.