File Roller

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File Roller
File-roller.svg
File roller 2.32.1 displaying the contents of an archive of itself.png
File Roller running on Ubuntu 10.10
Developer(s) Paolo Bacchilega
Stable release 3.8.2 (May 16, 2013; 2 days ago (2013-05-16)) [±][1]
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.

Contents

Features [edit]

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.

File Formats [edit]

File Roller supports the following file formats:

Note: Backend programs are needed. File Roller is only a frontend.[2]

  • 7z (.7z)
  • ar (.ar)
  • ARJ (.arj)
  • gzip (.tar.gz , .tgz)
  • bzip (.tar.bz , .tbz)
  • bzip2 (.tar.bz2 , .tbz2)
  • xz (.tar.xz)
  • compress (.tar.Z , .taz)
  • Portable Executable (.exe, .dll)
  • 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, xz
  • ISO images (.iso) (read-only)
  • DEB (.deb) (read-only)
  • RPM (.rpm) (read-only)

Limitations [edit]

  • 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.

See also [edit]

References [edit]

  1. ^ Peters, Frederic (2013-05-16), "GNOME 3.8.2 Release", gnome-announce mailing list, retrieved 2013-05-17 
  2. ^ http://fileroller.sourceforge.net/features.html File Roller is only a graphical interface to archiving utilities

External links [edit]