File Roller

An archive manager utility for the GNOME Environment.

What is it ?

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).

Useful links

• 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

Licensing

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.

Dependencies

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)

Install

mkdir build
cd build
meson ..
ninja
ninja install