File Roller Explained

GNOME
File Roller
Developer:	Paolo Bacchilega
Released:	^[1] ^[2]
Programming Language:	C
Operating System:	Unix-like
Genre:	File archiver
License:	GPL-2.0-or-later

File Roller (formerly GNOME Archive Manager) is a file archiver for the GNOME desktop environment.^[3]

File Roller 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

Supporting the archive formats requires external back-end programs and libraries,^[5] it supports:^[6]

• 7z
• ace
• ar
• alz
• apk
• arj
• bin
• br
• bz
• bz2
• cab
• cbz
• cpio
• crx
• deb (read)
• dll
• ear
• epub
• exe
• gz
• iso (read)
• jar
• lha
• lhz
• lrz
• lz
• lz4
• lzh
• lzma
• lzo
• pkg
• rar
• rpm (read)
• rzip
• snap
• sit
• sqsh
• tar
• xar
• xip
• xz
• z
• zip
• zoo
• zst

Limitations

File Roller does not give the advanced options to compress using different levels of compression via GUI (High, Normal, Low/Fast, etc.). This can be set however using dconf-editor, or the old gconf-editor on GNOME 2.

See also

• Xarchiver
• Comparison of archive formats
• Comparison of file archivers

External links

• • Manuals
• Source code

Notes and References

1. Web site: File Roller (Old news) . 2016-02-24 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20021211000211/http://fileroller.sourceforge.net/news.html . 2002-12-11.
2. Web site: Initial revision (3d7d6e3c) · Commits · GNOME / File Roller · GitLab.
3. https://www.techrepublic.com/article/file-roller-makes-archiving-easy/ "File Roller makes archiving easy"
4. https://archive.today/20051126213657/http://www.centos.org/docs/4/html/rhel-sbs-en-4/s1-managing-compressing-archiving.html/ "3.4.1. Using File Roller"
5. http://fileroller.sourceforge.net/features.html File Roller is only a graphical interface to archiving utilities
6. https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/file-roller/-/blob/master/data/supported-mime-types GNOME GitLab: File "supported-mime-types"