File Roller
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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 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: 7z ace ar alz apk arj bin br bz bz2 cab cbz cpio crx deb (read) dll ear epub exe gz iso (read) jar lha lhz lrz lz lz4 lzh lzma lzo pkg rar rpm (read) rzip snap sit sqsh tar xar xip xz z zip zoo zst
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.
See also
Xarchiver Comparison of archive formats Comparison of file archivers
References
External links
Manuals Source code
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