About
File Roller is an archive manager for the GNOME environment.
With File Roller you can:
- Create and modify archives.
- View the content of an archive.
- View a file contained in the archive.
- Extract files from the archive.
File Roller is only a graphical interface to archiving utilities such as tar and zip. Supported archive types include :
- Tar archives uncompressed (.tar) or compressed with
- gzip (.tar.gz , .tgz)
- bzip (.tar.bz , .tbz)
- bzip2 (.tar.bz2 , .tbz2)
- compress (.tar.Z , .taz)
- lzop (.tar.lzo , .tzo)
- Zip archives (.zip)
- Jar archives (.jar , .ear , .war)
- Lha archives (.lzh)
- Rar archives (.rar)
- Zoo archives (.zoo)
- Arj archives (.arj)
- AR archives (.ar)
- Debian archives (.deb) (Read-only mode)
- RPM archives (.rpm) (Read-only mode)
- 7-zip archives (.7z)
- ISO files (.iso) (Read-only mode)
- Stuffit archives (.bin, .sit)
- Single files compressed with gzip, bzip, bzip2, compress, lzop
File Roller also installs a nautilus extension which adds an "Extract Here" option to the context menu of archive files.
Installing
File-roller is install by default with Fedora
If it's missing from you installation you can install it by going to System --> Administration --> Add/Remove Software in the Gnome Desktop Enviroment.
Type file-roller in the search field, check the box and click apply.
You can also open a Terminal window and type
su -c 'yum install file-roller'
To install corresponding debug package open up terminal and type
su -c 'debuginfo-install file-roller'
Testing
Skill level = Beginner
Start application
Description
Starting the application
Steps To Reproduce
- Start the application by clicking on application --> Accessories --> Archive Manager
- Open up terminal by clicking on Application --> System Tools --> Terminal and run
file-roller
Expected Results
Application should start and without any errors
Close application
Description
Close the application
Steps To Reproduce
- Close the application by select Archive --> Close
- Close application by pressing <ctrl>-w
Expected Results
Application should close without any errors
Create an Archive
Description
Create archive
Steps To Reproduce
- Create a folder and a text file in the folder or use existing folder
- Select Archive --> New
- Press <ctrl>-n
- Click New
- Select that newly created folder
- Type Test-Archive in name filed
- Click New
- Create an archive with every option available in Archive type
- Select the newly created folder from nautilus and right click and choose archive
Expected Results
Archive should be created without any errors
Extract archives
Description
Extract archive
Steps To Reproduce =
- Douple click Test-Archive
- Select Archive --> Open
- Press <ctrl>-p
- Click open
- Select that newly created folder
- Type Test-Archive in name filed
- Click New
- Create an archive with every option available in Archive type
- Select the newly created folder from nautilus and right click and choose archive
Expected Results
Archive should be extraced without any errors
Add to already existing archive
Reporting
Attace back trace to the report and more..
Testing Results
| Test Case | Tested By | Bugs |
| Starting the application | ||
| Stopping through application | ||
| Create an archive | ||
| Extract an archive |