Thunar-archive-plugin(Thunar Archive Plugin) allows you to create and extract archive files using the file context menus in the Thunar file manager.
Thunar-archive-plugin documentation
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Thunar-archive-plugin source code
Thunar-archive-plugin archive or Thunar-archive-plugin tags
From source:
% cd thunar-archive-plugin
% ./autogen.sh
% make
% make install
From release tarball:
% tar xf thunar-archive-plugin-<version>.tar.bz2
% cd thunar-archive-plugin-<version>
% ./configure
% make
% make install
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