Mount archives like .zip, .tar.gz and many more as if they were disk! This is a Gnome / GTK4 (Linux) GUI for the fantastic ratarmount. It works as standalone app as well as a Nautilus (Gnome Files) extension.

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jendap/ratarmount_ui/refs/heads/main/ratarmount-ui.py -O ~/.local/bin/ratarmount-ui
chmod +x ~/.local/bin/ratarmount-ui

sudo apt install -y python3-nautilus
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jendap/ratarmount_ui/refs/heads/main/ratarmount-ui-nautilus.py -P ~/.local/share/nautilus-python/extensions/

sudo dnf install -y nautilus-python
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jendap/ratarmount_ui/refs/heads/main/ratarmount-ui-nautilus.py -P ~/.local/share/nautilus-python/extensions/

Instead of ratarmount ... simply use ratarmount-ui ....

Run the commands above. You should now see a "Mount" option in the context menu of archives.

Note: It can be used as a nautilus script too (without python3-nautilus dependency): ln -s ~/.local/bin/ratarmount-ui ~/.local/share/nautilus/scripts/'Mount...'

Sadly ratarmount can take quite a bit of memory (as of December 2025). You are recommended to unmount once you're done with it.

You don't need the .venv. It has only dev dependencies adding typing for gi.repository. You will need sudo apt install -y libgirepository-2.0-dev to run uv sync.

• Offer to upstream this into ratarmount repo (or create separete pip package?)
• Use format detection from ratarmountcore/formats.py or Nautilus.FileInfo.get_mime_type() instead of the current extension list. Used it to validate mount source file types in the ui too.
• Hints, translations (+help and accessibility)
• Simple progress bar (log window in advanced expander) (ratarmount as library or upstream support needed)
• Make sure .sqlite files are going to ~/.cache + auto-expire policy (in ratarmount itself?)
• Drop parsing and make it use the argparse code from ratarmount itself
• Icon and .desktop file
• Test(s)
• Package to major distributions - ratarmount has to be upstreamed first
• Should this follow Gnome Human Interface Guidelines? Use libadwaita?
• Option to automatically unmount after n seconds of inactivity (in ratarmnout itself)
• Add list of mounted archives (to a tab?) and one click unmount them (all of them)
• Add systemd-run to create cgroup to limit memory usage (and improve security?)