Archive Manager (previously File Roller) is the

file archiver A file archiver is a computer program that combines a number of files together into one archive file, or a series of archive files, for easier transportation or storage. File archivers may employ lossless data compression in their archive formats ...

of the GNOME

desktop environment In computing, a desktop environment (DE) is an implementation of the desktop metaphor made of a bundle of programs running on top of a computer operating system that share a common graphical user interface (GUI), sometimes described as a graphi ...

. Archive Manager 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 In computing, an archive file is a computer file that is composed of one or more files along with metadata. Archive files are used to collect multiple data files together into a single file for easier portability and storage, or simply to compres ...

requires external back-end programs and libraries,http://fileroller.sourceforge.net/features.html File Roller is only a graphical interface to archiving utilities it supports:GNOME GitLab: File "supported-mime-types"
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ace An ace is a playing card, die or domino with a single pip. In the standard French deck, an ace has a single suit symbol (a heart, diamond, spade, or club) located in the middle of the card, sometimes large and decorated, especially in the ca ...

* ar *

alz The Alz () is a river in Bavaria, southern Germany, the only discharge of the Chiemsee. Its origin is on the northern shore near Seebruck. It is a right tributary of the Inn, into which it flows in Marktl. Other towns on the Alz are Altenmarkt an ...

* apk *

arj ARJ (Archived by Robert Jung) is a software tool designed by Robert K. Jung for creating high-efficiency compressed file archives. ARJ is currently on version 2.86 for MS-DOS and 3.20 for Microsoft Windows and supports 16-bit, 32-bit and 64-bit ...

* bin * br * bz * bz2 * cab * cbz * cbz *

cpio cpio is a general file archiver utility and its associated file format. It is primarily installed on Unix-like computer operating systems. The software utility was originally intended as a tape archiving program as part of the Programmer's Work ...

* crx * deb (read) * dll * ear *

epub EPUB is an e-book file format that uses the ".epub" file extension. The term is short for ''electronic publication'' and is sometimes styled ''ePub''. EPUB is supported by many e-readers, and compatible software is available for most smartphon ...

* exe * gz *

iso ISO is the most common abbreviation for the International Organization for Standardization. ISO or Iso may also refer to: Business and finance * Iso (supermarket), a chain of Danish supermarkets incorporated into the SuperBest chain in 2007 * Is ...

(read) * jar * lha * lhz * lrz * lz * lz4 * lzh * lzma * lzo * pkg *

rar RAR or Rar may refer to: * Radio acoustic ranging, a non-visual technique for determining a ship's position at sea * "rar", the ISO 639-2 code for the Cook Islands Māori language * RAR (file format), a proprietary compressed archive file format in ...

rpm Revolutions per minute (abbreviated rpm, RPM, rev/min, r/min, or with the notation min−1) is a unit of rotational speed or rotational frequency for rotating machines. Standards ISO 80000-3:2019 defines a unit of rotation as the dimension ...

(read) *

rzip rzip is a huge-scale data compression computer program designed around initial LZ77-style string matching on a 900 MB dictionary window, followed by bzip2-based Burrows–Wheeler transform and entropy coding ( Huffman) on 900 kB outp ...

* snap * sit *

sqsh Sqsh (pronounced {{not a typo, ''skwish''), short for SQSHell (pronounced s-q-shell), is an Free and open-source software, Free and open-source substitute for isql, the interactive SQL Client (computing), client supplied with Sybase's Adaptive Se ...

tar Tar is a dark brown or black viscosity, viscous liquid of hydrocarbons and free carbon, obtained from a wide variety of organic matter, organic materials through destructive distillation. Tar can be produced from coal, wood, petroleum, or peat. ...

xar Xar may refer to: * Xar (graphics), a file format used with vector graphics * XAR, a file archiver and its associated file format * Michael Portnoy, who uses the stage name XAR * The ICAO The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO ...

* xip * xz * z * zip *

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zst ZST (pronounced ''Zest'') is a Japan-based mixed martial arts promotion and sanctioning organization holding amateur and semi-professional MMA events. ZST adopts unique rules in the MMA industry and also used to hold tag-team MMA matches. Hist ...

Limitations

Archive Manager 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 Gconf-editor is a discontinued utility for the GNOME desktop environment used to maintain the old and now discontinued GNOME registry gconf. Gconf-editor gives users the ability to access settings stored in the XML-based GConf configuration datab ...

on GNOME 2.

References

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Manuals

Source code
{{GNOME-stub Archive managers that use GTK File archivers Free data compression software Free software programmed in C GNOME Applications Software that uses Meson

File formats

Limitations

See also

References

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