How to compress files to .tar.gz on RHEL8 GUI

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Issue

  • On RHEL8 desktop, right click a file then select "compress", there are only 3 types of archives, .zip, .tar.xz and .7z. But on RHEL7 desktop, there is .tar.gz and other types.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

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