file-roller mit Homebrew, apk, apt, dnf, MacPorts, Nix, pacman, zypper installieren

Projektlinks

• Homepage
• Repository
• Upstream-Dokumentation
• Paketmanager-Seite

Befehle und Aliase

• file-roller

Projektgeschichte

The official README defines File Roller as an archive manager for the GNOME environment and emphasizes that it is a frontend to archiving programs such as tar and zip. It supports creating and modifying archives, viewing archive contents, viewing or modifying files inside archives, and extracting files.

The NEWS file records a long GNOME application history beginning with version 0.1 as the first public version. Early releases quickly added JAR, RAR, LHA, drag-and-drop, wildcard operations, compressed single-file support, non-interactive modes, and Nautilus integration. Version 1.101 ported the application to GNOME 2, while the later 44.alpha release ported it to GTK4.

Modern File Roller maintenance tracks GNOME platform changes and archive-format churn. Recent NEWS entries include bzip3 support, updated Flatpak packaging, native app chooser changes, rar parsing fixes, Google Drive filename fixes, and many translation updates.

Adoptionsgeschichte

File Roller's adoption is tied to GNOME desktops and distributions that package GNOME applications. The supplied package metadata shows it packaged across Homebrew, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch, Alpine, MacPorts, Nix, and openSUSE.

Its role in packaging is slightly different from command-line archivers: distributions ship File Roller as a desktop archive UI, while the actual compression and extraction capabilities depend on helper programs and optional libraries such as libarchive and unarchiver backends.

Wie es verwendet wird

The README describes File Roller as able to create and modify archives, view archive contents, view or modify files inside an archive, and extract files. It supports many common and legacy archive formats, including 7z, zip, tar variants, rar, cab, cpio, deb and rpm in read-only mode, ISO images, Java archive formats, and single-file compression formats.

For users, the important operational detail is that File Roller is a graphical frontend. Package maintainers therefore care about both the GNOME libraries it builds against and the command-line archivers or optional backends installed alongside it.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

File Roller is package-nerd significant because it is the GNOME desktop layer over a pile of archive formats and helper utilities. It exposes old and new compression formats to ordinary users while forcing packagers to keep format support, MIME integration, Nautilus integration, translations, and sandboxed desktop behavior working together.

Its NEWS history also captures the maintenance burden of desktop archive managers: parsing hostile or unusual archives, password retries, multi-volume archives, mounted volumes, cloud-provider paths, Flatpak manifests, and platform toolkit transitions.

Zeitleiste

• 0.1: First public version.
• 0.8: Adds compressed single-file support, non-interactive add mode, and Nautilus scripts.
• 1.101: Ports to GNOME 2.
• 2024: 44.alpha ports File Roller to GTK4.
• 2024: 44.4 adds bzip3 support and file-selector improvements.
• 2026: 44.7 includes parsing, Flatpak, metadata, and translation fixes.

Related projects

• File Roller is related to GNOME Files/Nautilus integration, tar, zip, 7zip, rar, libarchive, unarchiver backends, Flatpak packaging, and the broader GNOME application stack.

Quellen

• https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/file-roller
• https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/file-roller/-/raw/master/README.md
• https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/file-roller/-/raw/master/NEWS