Archive Manager

Archive Manager

Archive Manager 3.10.1
Developer(s)	Paolo Bacchilega
Initial release	May 12, 2001 (2001-05-12)^[1]^[2]

Stable release	3.24.3 (20 July 2017 (2017-07-20)^[3]) [±]
Preview release	3.25.4 (20 July 2017 (2017-07-20)) [±]

Repository	git.gnome.org/browse/file-roller/
Written in	C
Operating system	Unix-like
Type	File archiver
License	GNU GPL
Website	wiki.gnome.org/Apps/FileRoller

Archive Manager (previously File Roller) is the archive manager of the GNOME desktop environment.^[4]

Features

Archive Manager 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

Backend programs are needed to use Archive Manager as a frontend.^[6] Archive Manager supports the following file formats:^[7]

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

↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2002-12-11. Retrieved 2016-02-24.
↑ https://git.gnome.org/browse/file-roller/commit/NEWS?id=3d7d6e3cc8202813ffcbe0c8affd1a6a04e5a9c7
↑ https://git.gnome.org/browse/epiphany/tag/?h=3.24.3
↑ "File Roller makes archiving easy" Techrepublic. Retrieved 25 November 2013.
↑ "3.4.1. Using File Roller" Centos.org. Retrieved 25 November 2013.
↑ http://fileroller.sourceforge.net/features.html File Roller is only a graphical interface to archiving utilities
↑ Danny Stieben (15 August 2013)"Linux Archive Managers Compared: Ark vs. File Roller" MakeUseOf. Retrieved 25 November 2013.

External links

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Other

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Community

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Category
Commons

Data compression software

Archivers with
compression
(comparison)

Free software	7-Zip Archive Manager Ark Expander FreeArc Info-ZIP KGB Archiver PAQ PeaZip The Unarchiver (decompression only) tar Xarchiver Zipeg ZPAQ
Freeware	Filzip LHA StuffIt Expander (decompression only) TUGZip ZipGenius
Commercial	ARC ALZip Archive Utility ARJ BetterZip BulkZip JAR MacBinary PKZIP/SecureZIP PowerArchiver StuffIt WinAce WinRAR WinZip

Non-archiving
compressors

Generic	bzip2 compress gzip lzip lzop pack rzip Snappy XZ Utils
For code	UPX

Audio
compression
(comparison)

Lossy	Fraunhofer FDK AAC Nero AAC Codec Freeware Advanced Audio Coder (FAAC) Helix DNA Producer l3enc LAME TooLAME libavcodec libcelt libopus libspeex Musepack libvorbis Windows Media Encoder
Lossless	ALAC FLAC libavcodec Monkey's Audio mp4als OptimFROG Shorten TTA (True Audio) WavPack

Video
compression
(comparison)

Lossy

MPEG-4 ASP	3ivx DivX Nero Digital FFmpeg HDX4 Xvid
H.264 / MPEG-4 AVC	CoreAVC Blu-code DivX FFmpeg Nero Digital OpenH264 QuickTime x264
HEVC	DivX x265
Others	CineForm Cinepak Daala DNxHD Helix DNA Producer Indeo libavcodec Schrödinger (Dirac) SBC Sorenson VP7 libtheora libvpx Windows Media Encoder

Lossless

See also: compression methods and compression formats

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