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Skill level = Easy
Skill level = Easy
== Start and stop application ==


= Reporting =
= Reporting =

Revision as of 15:23, 9 January 2009

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 = Easy

Start and stop application

Reporting

Testing Results

Test Case Tested By Bugs
Start and stop application
Click through application
Create and extract varius types of archiving
Extract and Save to storage media