File Roller is a graphic user interface for various compression tools and packing programs, which is standard for the operation of command lines. The archive manager is available for the GNOME and Unity desktop environments, and has been distributed under the GNU General Public License since 2001. It allows contents of various archive files to be viewed, as well as for files to be extracted, deleted, or added to them. It is also possible to create new compressed or unchanged files and archives, as well as to convert them to another format. For this purpose, the main window of the software offers various buttons and menus alongside a drag-and-drop function.
In addition to tar archive formats like tar.gz, File Roller supports the following formats:
- .7z
- .tar
- .gzip
- .bzip2
- .ar
- .jar
- .cpio
File Roller is preinstalled on some Linux distributions, such as Ubuntu, by default, but can also be installed manually using the respective package manager or from the official homepage. An alternative for the desktop environment KDE is Ark.