File Roller

File Roller

File Roller 3.10.1
Developer(s)	Paolo Bacchilega
Stable release	3.14.3 (December 19, 2014 (2014-12-19)) [±]
Preview release	3.15.4 (January 21, 2015 (2015-01-21)) [±]
Written in	C
Operating system	Unix-like
Type	File archiver
License	GNU GPL
Website	wiki.gnome.org/Apps/FileRoller

File Roller is the archive manager of the GNOME desktop environment.

Features

File Roller Archive Manager 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

File Roller supports the following file formats:

Note: Backend programs are needed. File Roller is only a frontend.

• 7z (.7z)
• ar (.ar)
• ARJ (.arj)
• gzip (.tar.gz , .tgz)
• bzip (.tar.bz , .tbz)
• bzip2 (.tar.bz2 , .tbz2)
• xz (.tar.xz)
• compress (.tar.Z , .taz)
• Portable Executable (.exe, .dll)
• lzip (.tar.lz , .tlz)
• LZO (.tar.lzo , .tzo)
• JAR archives (.jar , .ear , .war)
• LHA archives (.lzh)
• RAR archives (.rar)
• StuffIt archives (.bin, .sit)
• tar
• ZIP archives (.zip)
• Zoo archives (.zoo)
• Single files compressed with gzip, bzip, bzip2, compress, lzip, LZO, xz
• ISO images (.iso) (read-only)
• DEB (.deb) (read-only)
• RPM (.rpm) (read-only)

Limitations

• While it has the ability to use various formats (7z, rar, etc.) with the appropriate plugins, it doesn't give the option to compress using different levels of compression via GUI (High, Normal/Fast, etc.) unlike many other utilities. This can be set however using gconf-editor.

See also

• Comparison of archive formats
• Comparison of file archivers

External links

• Official website
• Manuals
• Source code