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]
• Apple Disk Image (.dmg) [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/
• Discuss: https://discourse.gnome.org/tags/c/applications/7/file-roller
• Donate: https://www.gnome.org/friends/
• Translate: https://wiki.gnome.org/TranslationProject

Dependencies

In order to build this program from the source code you need a working GNOME environment, with the development tools installed.

In addition to

• C compiler such as gcc
• Meson
• ninja
• pkg-config

you need the following libraries (including their development files):

• glib ≥ 2.38
• gtk ≥ 3.22.0
• libhandy ≥1.5.0
• libportal ≥ 0.5
• libportal-gtk3 ≥ 0.5
• libnautilus-extension-4 ≥ 43.beta (optional for Nautilus extension)
• libarchive ≥ 3.1.900a (optional format support)
• json-glib-1.0 ≥ 0.14.0 (optional for unarchiver back-end support)

Alternately, with Nix package manager, you can just run nix-shell in the project directory, and it will drop you into a shell with all the required dependencies.

Building locally

1. Clone this repository and enter the project directory:

   git clone [email protected]:GNOME/file-roller.git
   cd file-roller

2. Configure the build. You can set the prefix, relative to which file-roller would be installed, as well as other build flags described in meson_options.txt file:

   meson setup _build --prefix=/usr/local

3. Build the program:

   ninja -C _build

Then you can either start the built program from the build directory:

meson devenv -C _build/ file-roller

or install it to the previously configured prefix:

meson install -C _build

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.