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• File Roller *

                  an archive manager utility for the
                          GNOME Environment.

• What is it ?

  File Roller is an archive manager for the GNOME environment. This means that 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 front-end (a graphical interface) to archiving programs like tar and zip. The supported file types are :

  • 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
• Home Page

  http://fileroller.sourceforge.net

• Licensing

  This program is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GNU GPL).

  You can find a copy of the license in the file COPYING.

• Dependencies

  In order to use this program you need a working GNOME environment version 2.x, with the development tools installed properly.

  Also you need :

  • gnome-vfs
  • libglade
  • bonobo-activation
  • bonobo
• Install

  ./configure make make install