File roller Archive Manager free and open-source archive tool for the GNOME environment



Open-source Archive manager for GNOME(A File-roller)

Archive Manager is a free and open-source archive manager for the GNOME environment. 

It allows users to perform the following operations:

1] Create and modify archives.

2] View the different file content of an archive.

3] View a file contained in an archive.

4] Extract files from an archive file.

5] Set password protection for the archive file.

6] Test the Integrity of the archived file contents.

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archive-manager-user-interface

 Archive Manager supports the following file formats:

1] Zip archives - (.zip)

2]Jar archives - (.jar, .ear, .war)

3] 7z archives - (.7z)

4] iso CD images - (.iso)

5] Archiver archives - (.ar)

6] Comic book archives - (.cbz)

7] Single files compressed with gzip - (.gz), bzip (.bz), bzip2 (.bz2),

    compressed - (.Z), lzip (.lz), lzop (.lzo), lzma (.lzma) and xz (.xz)

8] Tar (.tar) archives compressed with -

    gzip - (.tar.gz, .tgz) 

    bzip - (.tar.bz, .tbz) 

    bzip2 - (.tar.bz2, .tbz2)

    compressed - (.tar.Z, .taz), lzip (.tar.lz, .tlz), lzop (.tar.lzo, .tzo),

    lzma (.tar.lzma) and xz (.tar.xz)

9] .exe and cpio

about-archive-manager


Steps to create an Archive file:

1] Click Archive icon --->Click New Archive

2] Provide file name 

3] Select Archive type

4] Select folder 

5] Click other options for password protection

   Type password

6] Select Multi-volume Archive size

7] Click create button

archive-manager-create-archive


How to add files into the archive file:

1]Create an archive file using the Click Archive icon --->Click New Archive

2]Open archive file using Click Archive icon --->Click Open

3]Click the + (plus) Tab to add new files to the existing archive file.

or drag and drop files into an archive.

archive-manager-add-files-to-archive


Steps to Open an Archive file:

1] Click Archive icon --->Click Open

2] Click the Extract tab to extract archive file contents.

3] Click the + (plus) Tab to add new files to the existing archive file.

4] Select folder location to extract the file contents.

archive-manager-open-archive


Steps to Extract an Archive file:

1] Click Archive icon --->Click Open

2] Click the Extract tab to extract archive file contents.

3] Select folder location to extract the file contents.

archive-manager-extract-files


How to check archived file properties:

1] Click Archive icon --->Click Open

2] Click the button with three horizontal stacks of lines.

3] Click the properties option.


archive-manager-file-properties


How to rename existing archive file:

1] Click Archive icon --->Click Open

2] Click the button with three horizontal stacks of lines.

3] Click the save-as option.


How to Test the Integrity of existing archive files:

1] Click Archive icon --->Click Open

2] Click the button with three horizontal stacks of lines.

3] Click the Test Integrity option.

You will generate Integrity test results as output.

archive-manager-integrity-test-result


How to install file roller archive tool on linux:

>  sudo apt-get install -y file-roller

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