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= 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 =
= Installing =

Revision as of 16:50, 9 January 2009


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





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