File Roller
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File Roller running on Ubuntu 10.10 |
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| Developer(s) | Paolo Bacchilega |
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| Stable release | 3.2.2 (16 November 2011)[1] [±] |
| Preview release | 3.3.4 (26 January 2012)[2] [±] |
| Written in | C |
| Operating system | Unix-like |
| Type | File archiver |
| License | GNU GPL |
| Website | fileroller.sf.net |
File Roller is the archive manager of the GNOME desktop environment.
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[edit] Features
File Roller Archive Manager can:
- Create and modify archives.
- View the content of an archive.
- View a file contained in the archive.
- Extract files from the archive.
[edit] File Formats
File Roller supports the following file formats:
Note: Backend programs are needed. File Roller is only a frontend.[3]
- 7z (.7z)
- ar (.ar)
- ARJ (.arj)
- gzip (.tar.gz , .tgz)
- bzip (.tar.bz , .tbz)
- bzip2 (.tar.bz2 , .tbz2)
- compress (.tar.Z , .taz)
- lzip (.tar.lz , .tlz)
- LZO (.tar.lzo , .tzo)
- JAR archives (.jar , .ear , .war)
- LHA archives (.lzh)
- RAR archives (.rar)
- StuffIt archives (.bin, .sit)
- tar
- ZIP archives (.zip)
- Zoo archives (.zoo)
- Single files compressed with gzip, bzip, bzip2, compress, lzip, LZO
- ISO images (.iso) (read-only)
- DEB (.deb) (read-only)
- RPM (.rpm) (read-only)
[edit] Limitations
- While it has the ability to use various formats (7z, rar, etc.) with the appropriate plugins, it doesn't give the option to compress using different levels of compression via GUI (High, Normal/Fast, etc.) unlike many other utilities. This can be set however using gconf-editor.
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Piñeiro Iglesias, Alejandro (2011-11-16). "GNOME 3.2.2 released". gnome-announce mailing list. https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/2011-November/msg00020.html.
- ^ "GNOME 3.3.4 Development Release". devel-announce-list mailing list. https://mail.gnome.org/archives/devel-announce-list/2012-January/msg00005.html.
- ^ http://fileroller.sourceforge.net/features.html File Roller is only a graphical interface to archiving utilities
[edit] External links
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