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
Archive Manager 3.38.0
Developer(s)Paolo Bacchilega
Initial releaseMay 12, 2001 (2001-05-12)[1][2]
Stable release3.38.3[3] (29 January 2021 (2021-01-29)) [±]
Preview release40.alpha[4] (26 January 2021 (2021-01-26)) [±]
Repository
Written inC
Operating systemUnix-like
TypeFile archiver
LicenseGNU GPL
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. Catanzaro, Michael (29 January 2021). "GNOME 3.38.3 released!". GNOME Mail Services (Mailing list). Retrieved 30 January 2021.
  4. Petridis, Jordan (26 January 2021). "GNOME 40.alpha Released". GNOME Mail Services (Mailing list). Retrieved 26 January 2021.
  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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