With File Roller you can:

  • Create and modify archives.
  • View the content of an archive.
  • View and modify a file contained in the archive.
  • Extract files from the archive.
  • Save the archive in a different format.

File Roller is only a graphical interface to archiving utilities such as tar and zip. Since version 3.6.0 it can optionally use libarchive to handle some archive types. Supported archive types include:

  • 7-Zip Compressed File (.7z)
  • WinAce Compressed File (.ace)
  • ALZip Compressed File (.alz)
  • AIX Small Indexed Archive (.ar)
  • ARJ Compressed Archive (.arj)
  • Cabinet File (.cab)
  • UNIX CPIO Archive (.cpio)
  • Debian Linux Package (.deb) read-only
  • ISO-9660 CD Disc Image (.iso)
  • Java Archive (.jar)
  • Java Enterprise archive (.ear)
  • Java Web Archive (.war)
  • LHA Archive (.lzh, .lha)
  • WinRAR Compressed Archive (.rar)
  • RAR Archived Comic Book (.cbr)
  • RPM Linux Package (.rpm) read-only
  • Stuffit Archives (.bin, .sit)
  • Tar Archives:
    • uncompressed (.tar)
    • compressed with:
      • gzip (.tar.gz , .tgz)
      • bzip (.tar.bz , .tbz)
      • bzip2 (.tar.bz2 , .tbz2)
      • compress (.tar.Z , .taz)
      • lzip (.tar.lz , .tlz)
      • lzop (.tar.lzo , .tzo)
      • 7zip (.tar.7z)
      • xz (.tar.xz)
  • ZIP Archive (.zip)
  • ZIP Archived Comic Book (.cbz)
  • ZOO Compressed Archive File (.zoo)
  • Single files compressed with gzip, bzip, bzip2, compress, lzip, lzop, rzip, xz.

What's New:

  • Added Beta version 3.13.2
  • Bugs fixed
    • Use the correct property to set GtkMenuButton's menu (Cosimo Cecchi)
  • New or updated application translations
    • Finnish (Jiri Grönroos)
    • French (Daniel Korostil)
    • Slovak (Dušan Kazik)
    • Turkish (Muhammet Kara)
  • New or updated manual translations
    • Greek (Dimitris sping (Δημήτρης Σπίγγος))
    • Danish (flemming christensen)
    • Spanish, Castilian (Daniel Mustieles)
    • French (Alain Lojewski)
    • Hungarian (Gabor Kelemen)