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An archive manager for the GNOME desktop environment This article is about File Roller. For archive managers in general, see file archiver.
File Roller
File Roller 3.40 beta
Developer(s)Paolo Bacchilega
Initial releaseMay 12, 2001; 23 years ago (2001-05-12)
Stable release44.3 Edit this on Wikidata / 19 May 2024; 7 months ago (19 May 2024)
Preview releasen/a
Repository
Written inC
Operating systemUnix-like
TypeFile archiver
LicenseGPL-2.0-or-later
Websitewiki.gnome.org/Apps/FileRoller

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

File Roller 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

Supporting the archive formats requires external back-end programs and libraries, it supports:

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

  1. "File Roller (Old news)". Archived from the original on 2002-12-11. Retrieved 2016-02-24.
  2. "Initial revision (3d7d6e3c) · Commits · GNOME / File Roller · GitLab".
  3. "44.3 · Tags · GNOME / File Roller". 19 May 2024. Retrieved 11 July 2024.
  4. "File Roller makes archiving easy" Techrepublic. Retrieved 25 November 2013.
  5. "3.4.1. Using File Roller" Centos.org. Retrieved 25 November 2013
  6. "File Roller". fileroller.sourceforge.net. Retrieved 2024-09-18.
  7. "data/supported-mime-types · master · GNOME / File Roller · GitLab". GitLab. 2022-10-23. Retrieved 2024-09-18.

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