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GNOME archive manager. Version 44.7 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-07.

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macOS

Homebrewverified · 100%
brew install file-roller

local Homebrew formula metadata

MacPortsverified · 94%
sudo port install file-roller

MacPorts ports tree · gnome/file-roller/Portfile · source: api.github.com

Linux

Alpine Linux apkverified · 92%
sudo apk add file-roller

Alpine Linux edge package indexes · file-roller · source: dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org

Debian aptverified · 92%
sudo apt install file-roller

Debian stable package indexes · file-roller · source: deb.debian.org

Fedora dnfverified · 92%
sudo dnf install file-roller

Fedora Rawhide package metadata · file-roller · source: dl.fedoraproject.org

Nixverified · 92%
nix profile install nixpkgs#file-roller

nixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/fi/file-roller/package.nix · source: api.github.com

Arch Linux pacmanverified · 92%
sudo pacman -S file-roller

Arch Linux sync databases · file-roller · source: geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com

openSUSE zypperverified · 92%
sudo zypper install file-roller

openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · file-roller · source: download.opensuse.org

overview

Package summary

GNOME archive manager

Commands and aliases

  • file-roller

history

Project history and usage

File Roller is GNOME's archive manager, a graphical frontend for creating, inspecting, modifying, and extracting archives through underlying archiving tools.

Project history

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.

Adoption history

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.

How it is used

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.

Why package nerds care

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.

Timeline

  • 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.

security posture

Risk level: blue

broad file, network, media, or database tool signal.

Risk classifier

blue risk · medium confidence · tool

Why

  • broad file, network, media, or database tool signal

Signals

  • text:archive

Install behavior

  • No Homebrew post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
  • Homebrew bottle metadata is available for 6 platform targets.
  • Installs with 10 runtime dependencies.
  • Build metadata lists 5 build dependencies.

Recommended review

Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.

executables

Installed executables

CommandKindExposureNote
file-rollercliglobal executable

freshness

Version and freshness

These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.

page generated2026-07-08
manager version44.7
manager updated2026-07-07
local dataok
upstreamnot checked
latest detectednot detected

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/FileRoller

install metadata

Package metadata

Package keybrew:file-roller
Version44.7
Package managerHomebrew
Package manager pagehttps://formulae.brew.sh/formula/file-roller
Homepagehttps://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/FileRoller
Repositoryhttps://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/file-roller
Upstream docshttps://help.gnome.org/users/file-roller
LicenseGPL-2.0-or-later
Source archivehttps://download.gnome.org/sources/file-roller/44/file-roller-44.7.tar.xz
Last updated2026-07-07T06:57:35Z
Pulseupdated
Dependenciesadwaita-icon-theme, desktop-file-utils, gettext, glib, gtk4, hicolor-icon-theme, json-glib, libadwaita, libarchive, pango
Build dependenciesgettext, itstool, meson, ninja, pkgconf
Bottleavailable (on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux)
Homebrew post-installnot defined
Servicenone declared

registry facts

Source database details

Source DatabaseHomebrew formula API
Taphomebrew/core
Full Namefile-roller
Version Scheme0
Revision0
Bottle Stable Root URLhttps://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecatedno
Disabledno
Keg Onlyno
URL Keys
  • stable

source database matches

Other package-manager records

Matches are pulled from external package-manager indexes and kept separate from local Automic Vault package links.

Debian apt95%

file-roller 44.5-1

archive manager for GNOME

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/FileRoller

sudo apt install file-roller
  • Section: gnome
  • Architecture: amd64
  • 12 dependencies
  • 19 optional deps
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: File Roller
Debian stable package indexes · deb.debian.org · Debian stable package indexes: file-roller from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz
Nix95%

file-roller

nix profile install nixpkgs#file-roller
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: File Roller
nixpkgs package indexes · api.github.com · nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/fi/file-roller/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
Ubuntu apt95%

file-roller 44.1-1

archive manager for GNOME

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/FileRoller

sudo apt install file-roller
  • Section: gnome
  • Architecture: amd64
  • 13 dependencies
  • 18 optional deps
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: File Roller
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes · archive.ubuntu.com · Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: file-roller from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz
apk95%

file-roller 44.5-r1

File Roller is an archive manager for the GNOME desktop

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/file-roller

sudo apk add file-roller
  • License: GPL-2.0-or-later
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: file-roller
  • 1 dependencies
  • 1 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: File Roller
Alpine Linux edge package indexes · dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org · Alpine Linux edge package indexes: file-roller from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
apk95%

file-roller-doc 44.5-r1

File Roller is an archive manager for the GNOME desktop (documentation)

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/file-roller

sudo apk add file-roller-doc
  • License: GPL-2.0-or-later
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: file-roller
  • 1 dependencies
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: File Roller
Alpine Linux edge package indexes · dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org · Alpine Linux edge package indexes: file-roller-doc from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
apk95%

file-roller-lang 44.5-r1

Languages for package file-roller

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/file-roller

sudo apk add file-roller-lang
  • License: GPL-2.0-or-later
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: file-roller
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: File Roller
Alpine Linux edge package indexes · dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org · Alpine Linux edge package indexes: file-roller-lang from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
apk95%

file-roller-nautilus 44.5-r1

File Roller nautilus extension

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/file-roller

sudo apk add file-roller-nautilus
  • License: GPL-2.0-or-later
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: file-roller
  • 1 dependencies
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: File Roller
Alpine Linux edge package indexes · dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org · Alpine Linux edge package indexes: file-roller-nautilus from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
dnf95%

file-roller 44.6-2.fc45

Tool for viewing and creating archives

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/FileRoller

sudo dnf install file-roller
  • License: GPL-2.0-or-later
  • Category: Unspecified
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: file-roller
  • 12 dependencies
  • 4 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: File Roller
Fedora Rawhide package metadata · dl.fedoraproject.org · Fedora Rawhide package metadata: file-roller from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst
dnf95%

file-roller-nautilus 44.6-2.fc45

File Roller extension for nautilus

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/FileRoller

sudo dnf install file-roller-nautilus
  • License: GPL-2.0-or-later
  • Category: Unspecified
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: file-roller
  • 8 dependencies
  • 2 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: File Roller
Fedora Rawhide package metadata · dl.fedoraproject.org · Fedora Rawhide package metadata: file-roller-nautilus from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst
pacman95%

file-roller 44.6-2

Create and modify archives

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/FileRoller

sudo pacman -S file-roller
  • License: GPL-2.0-or-later
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • 11 dependencies
  • 15 optional deps
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: File Roller
Arch Linux sync databases · geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com · Arch Linux sync databases: file-roller from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz
zypper95%

file-roller 44.6-2.2

An Archive Manager for GNOME

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/FileRoller

sudo zypper install file-roller
  • License: GPL-2.0-or-later
  • Category: Productivity/Archiving/Compression
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: file-roller
  • 10 dependencies
  • 4 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: File Roller
openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · download.opensuse.org · openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: file-roller from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst
zypper95%

file-roller-lang 44.6-2.2

Translations for package file-roller

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/FileRoller

sudo zypper install file-roller-lang
  • License: GPL-2.0-or-later
  • Category: System/Localization
  • Architecture: noarch
  • Source Package: file-roller
  • 1 dependencies
  • 3 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: File Roller
openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · download.opensuse.org · openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: file-roller-lang from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst
zypper95%

nautilus-file-roller 44.6-2.2

File-roller extension for Nautilus

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/FileRoller

sudo zypper install nautilus-file-roller
  • License: GPL-2.0-or-later
  • Category: Productivity/Archiving/Compression
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: file-roller
  • 7 dependencies
  • 2 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: File Roller
openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · download.opensuse.org · openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: nautilus-file-roller from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst
MacPorts95%

file-roller

sudo port install file-roller
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: File Roller
MacPorts ports tree · api.github.com · MacPorts ports tree: gnome/file-roller/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1

package graph

Links come from deterministic package relationships, av.db category and tag curation, ecosystem matches, and package hub membership.

Related tools

  • desktop-file-utilsRuntime dependency declared by Homebrew.
  • gettextRuntime dependency declared by Homebrew.
  • glibRuntime dependency declared by Homebrew.
  • gtk4Runtime dependency declared by Homebrew.
  • json-glibRuntime dependency declared by Homebrew.
  • libadwaitaRuntime dependency declared by Homebrew.
  • itstoolBuild dependency declared by Homebrew.
  • mesonBuild dependency declared by Homebrew.

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