GNOME Archive Manager

Archive Manager (previously File Roller) is the file archiver of the GNOME desktop environment.[5]

This article is about GNOME Archive Manager. For archive managers in general, see file archiver.
Archive Manager
GNOME Archive Manager 3.40 beta
Developer(s)Paolo Bacchilega
Initial releaseMay 12, 2001 (2001-05-12)[1][2]
Stable release
3.40.0[3]  / 1 May 2021 (1 May 2021)
Preview release
3.37.90[4]  / 8 August 2020 (8 August 2020)
Repository
Written inC
Operating systemUnix-like
TypeFile archiver
LicenseGPL-2.0-or-later
Websitewiki.gnome.org/Apps/FileRoller

Archive Manager can:[6]

  • 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,[7] it supports:[8]

Limitations

Fille-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. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2002-12-11. Retrieved 2016-02-24.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. https://git.gnome.org/browse/file-roller/commit/NEWS?id=3d7d6e3cc8202813ffcbe0c8affd1a6a04e5a9c7
  3. "Release 3.40.0". 1 May 2021. Retrieved 11 May 2021.
  4. "Release 3.37.90". 8 August 2020. Retrieved 6 September 2020.
  5. "File Roller makes archiving easy" Techrepublic. Retrieved 25 November 2013.
  6. "3.4.1. Using File Roller" Centos.org. Retrieved 25 November 2013
  7. http://fileroller.sourceforge.net/features.html File Roller is only a graphical interface to archiving utilities
  8. GNOME GitLab: File "supported-mime-types"
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