How to install a simple and easy utility for dealing with archives in Kali Linux.

Archives on a Linux OS can be a pain in the butt for new users, but lucky for you there are tools that can make your life a whole lot easier. File roller is the best solution for dealing with archives in a GUI environment on the Kali Linux OS. It provides a graphical user interface for dealing with all types of archives.

I am by no means advising you to avoid the command line, because frankly if you want to be a real hacker you HAVE to learn the command line. You will be laughed out of any company or group if you do not have a good understanding of at least the basic Linux commands. I will be showing you some command line wizardry soon, so follow this blog so you can see every new post.

OK lets go, first pop open the command line, and enter the following commands to install file roller and the applications needed to handle the archives. Open terminal and type the following, you will want to do an apt-get update before you do this just to be sure that you get the newest versions of these tools.

apt-get update

apt-get install unrar unace rar unrar p7zip zip unzip p7zip-full p7zip-rar file-roller -y

And that is really all there is to it. This utility will make it possible to open most types of archives in a GUI environment which will come in handy for all of you native windows users. It is almost like the native windows program that opens ZIP files in a graphical user interface.

 I hope that this tip will help some of you to make the move over to not just Kali but open source operating systems.

Again thank you for reading. -Meo