File Roller

Archive manager for the GNOME desktop environment From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

File Roller (formerly GNOME Archive Manager) is a file archiver for the GNOME desktop environment.[4]

DeveloperPaolo Bacchilega
Initial releaseMay 12, 2001; 24 years ago (2001-05-12)[1][2]
Stable release
44.3[3] Edit this on Wikidata / 19 May 2024; 21 months ago (19 May 2024)
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File Roller
DeveloperPaolo Bacchilega
Initial releaseMay 12, 2001; 24 years ago (2001-05-12)[1][2]
Stable release
44.3[3] Edit this on Wikidata / 19 May 2024; 21 months ago (19 May 2024)
Preview release
n/a
Written inC
Operating systemUnix-like
TypeFile archiver
LicenseGPL-2.0-or-later
Websitewiki.gnome.org/Apps/FileRoller
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File Roller can:[5]

  • 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,[6] it supports:[7]

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

References

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