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Archive Manager

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Developer(s)
  
Paolo Bacchilega

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C

Archive Manager

Initial release
  
May 12, 2001; 15 years ago (2001-05-12)

Stable release
  
3.22.3 (9 November 2016; 3 months ago (2016-11-09)) [±]

Preview release
  
3.23.90 (15 February 2017; 11 days ago (2017-02-15)) [±]

Repository
  
git.gnome.org/browse/file-roller/

Archive Manager (previously File Roller) is the archive manager of the GNOME desktop environment.

Contents

Features

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

    Backend programs are needed to use Archive Manager as a frontend. Archive Manager supports the following file formats:

  • 7z (.7z)
  • ar (.ar)
  • ARJ (.arj)
  • gzip (.tar.gz , .tgz)
  • bzip (.tar.bz , .tbz)
  • bzip2 (.tar.bz2 , .tbz2)
  • xz (.tar.xz)
  • compress (.tar.Z , .taz)
  • Portable Executable (.exe, .dll)
  • lzip (.tar.lz , .tlz)
  • LZO (.tar.lzo , .tzo)
  • JAR archives (.jar , .ear , .war)
  • LHA archives (.lzh)
  • RAR archives (.rar)
  • StuffIt archives (.bin, .sit)
  • tar
  • ZIP archives (.zip)
  • Zoo archives (.zoo)
  • Single files compressed with gzip, bzip, bzip2, compress, lzip, LZO, xz
  • ISO images (.iso) (read-only)
  • DEB (.deb) (read-only)
  • RPM (.rpm) (read-only)

    • Limitations

    While Archive Manager has the ability to use various formats (7z, rar, etc.) with the appropriate plugins, it doesn't give the option to compress using different levels of compression via GUI (High, Normal/Fast, etc.) unlike many other utilities. This can be set however using gconf-editor.

    References

    Archive Manager Wikipedia
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