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Archive Manager
Developer(s)Paolo Bacchilega
Initial release2001-05-12[1][2]
Repository
Written inC
Operating systemUnix-like
TypeFile archiver
LicenseGNU GPL
Websitewiki.gnome.org/Apps/FileRoller

Archive Manager (previously File Roller) is the archive manager of the GNOME desktop environment.[3]

Features

Archive Manager can:[4]

  • Create and modify archives.
  • View the content of an archive.
  • View a file contained in the archive.
  • Extract files from the archive.

File Formats

Backend programs are needed to use Archive Manager as a frontend.[5] Archive Manager supports the following file formats:[6]

  • 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

While Archive Manager 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

References

  1. ^ Archived 2002-12-11 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ https://git.gnome.org/browse/file-roller/commit/NEWS?id=3d7d6e3cc8202813ffcbe0c8affd1a6a04e5a9c7
  3. ^ "File Roller makes archiving easy" Techrepublic. Retrieved 25 November 2013.
  4. ^ "3.4.1. Using File Roller" Centos.org. Retrieved 25 November 2013.
  5. ^ http://fileroller.sourceforge.net/features.html File Roller is only a graphical interface to archiving utilities
  6. ^ Danny Stieben (15 August 2013)"Linux Archive Managers Compared: Ark vs. File Roller" MakeUseOf. Retrieved 25 November 2013.


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