File Roller

File Roller
File Roller
	File Roller 3.40 beta
Developer(s)	Paolo Bacchilega
Initial release	May 12, 2001; 24 years ago
Stable release	44.3 / 19 May 2024; 15 months ago
Preview release	n/a
Repository	gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/file-roller.git ;
Written in	C
Operating system	Unix-like
Type	File archiver
License	GPL-2.0-or-later
Website	wiki.gnome.org/Apps/FileRoller

File Roller (formerly GNOME Archive Manager) is a file archiver for the GNOME desktop environment.^[4]

File Roller can:^[5]

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,^[6] it supports:^[7]

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.