File Roller project is an archive manager for the GNOME environment.
Archive manager 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)
· Single files compressed with gzip, bzip, bzip2, compress, lzop
File Roller has a document viewer based on bonobo that lets you view files of any type you have a viewer for.