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Archive manager for the GNOME desktop environment

File Roller

File Roller
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Developer
Paolo Bacchilega
Release
May 12, 2001
Stable release
44.3 / 19 May 2024
Preview release
n/a
Written in
C
Operating system
Unix-like
Type
File archiver
License
GPL-2.0-or-later
Website
wiki.gnome.org/Apps/FileRoller
Repository
gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/file-roller.git

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.

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