An archive manager utility for the GNOME Environment.
File Roller is an archive manager for the GNOME environment. This means that you can create and modify archives; view the content of an archive; view and modify a file contained in the archive; extract files from the archive.
File Roller is only a front-end (a graphical interface) to archiving programs like tar and zip. The supported file types are:
- 7-Zip Compressed File (.7z)
- WinAce Compressed File (.ace)
- ALZip Compressed File (.alz)
- AIX Small Indexed Archive (.ar)
- ARJ Compressed Archive (.arj)
- Cabinet File (.cab)
- UNIX CPIO Archive (.cpio)
- Debian Linux Package (.deb) [Read-only mode]
- ISO-9660 CD Disc Image (.iso) [Read-only mode]
- Java Archive (.jar)
- Java Enterprise archive (.ear)
- Java Web Archive (.war)
- LHA Archive (.lzh, .lha)
- WinRAR Compressed Archive (.rar)
- RAR Archived Comic Book (.cbr)
- RPM Linux Package (.rpm) [Read-only mode]
- Tape Archive File:
- uncompressed (.tar)
- or compressed with:
- gzip (.tar.gz , .tgz)
- brotli (.tar.br)
- bzip (.tar.bz , .tbz)
- bzip2 (.tar.bz2 , .tbz2)
- compress (.tar.Z , .taz)
- lrzip (.tar.lrz , .tlrz)
- lzip (.tar.lz , .tlz)
- lzop (.tar.lzo , .tzo)
- 7zip (.tar.7z)
- xz (.tar.xz)
- Zstandard (.tar.zst, .tzst)
- Snap packages (.snap)
- Squashfs images (.sqsh)
- Stuffit Archives (.bin, .sit)
- ZIP Archive (.zip)
- ZIP Archived Comic Book (.cbz)
- ZOO Compressed Archive File (.zoo)
- Single files compressed with gzip (.gz), brotli (.br), bzip (.bz), bzip2 (.bz2), compress (.Z), lrzip (.lrz), lzip (.lz), lzop (.lzo), rzip(.rz), and xz (.xz), Zstandard (.zst).
- Homepage: https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/FileRoller
- Report issues: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/file-roller/issues/
- Donate: https://www.gnome.org/friends/
- Translate: https://wiki.gnome.org/TranslationProject
This program is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GNU GPL) version 2 or greater. You can find a copy of the license in the file COPYING.
In order to build this program from the source code you need a working GNOME environment version 3.x, with the development tools installed properly.
Also you need the following libraries:
- glib >= 2.38
- gtk+ >= 3.22.0
- libnautilus-extension >= 3.28.0 (optional)
- libarchive >= 3.0.0 (optional)
mkdir build
cd build
meson ..
ninja
ninja install