# 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/ * Donate: https://www.gnome.org/friends/ * Translate: https://wiki.gnome.org/TranslationProject ## 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. ## Dependencies In order to build this program from the source code you need a working GNOME environment version 3.x, with the development tools installed properly. Also you need the following libraries: * glib >= 2.38 * gtk+ >= 3.22.0 * libhandy >=1.5.0 * libportal >= 0.5 * libportal-gtk3 >= 0.5 * libnautilus-extension-4 >= 43.beta (optional) * libarchive >= 3.1.900a (optional) Alternately, with [Nix package manager](https://nixos.org/nix/), you can just run `nix-shell` in the project directory, and it will drop you into a shell with all the required dependencies. ## Install ```bash mkdir build cd build meson .. ninja ninja install ```
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