How To Install file-roller on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install file-roller on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is file-roller
file-roller is:
File-roller is an archive manager for the GNOME environment. It allows you to:
- Create and modify archives.
- View the content of an archive.
- View a file contained in an archive.
- Extract files from the archive.
File-roller supports the following formats:
- Tar (.tar) archives, including those 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), lzma (.tar.lzma) and xz (.tar.xz)
- Zip archives (.zip)
- Jar archives (.jar, .ear, .war)
- 7z archives (.7z)
- iso9660 CD images (.iso)
- Lha archives (.lzh)
- Archiver archives (.ar)
- Comic book archives (.cbz)
- Single files compressed with gzip (.gz), bzip (.bz), bzip2 (.bz2), compress (.Z), lzip (.lz), lzop (.lzo), lzma (.lzma) and xz (.xz)
File-roller can extract following formats:
- Cabinet archives (.cab)
- Debian binary packages (.deb)
- Xar archives (.xar)
File-roller doesn’t perform archive operations by itself, but relies on standard tools for this. Task: ubuntu-desktop-minimal, ubuntu-desktop, ubuntu-budgie-desktop
Package: file-roller Architecture: amd64 Version: 3.36.1-1 Priority: optional Section: gnome Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian GNOME Maintainers [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 1680 Depends: bzip2, unzip, zip, dconf-gsettings-backend | gsettings-backend, libarchive13 (>= 3.3.3), libc6 (>= 2.14), libcairo2 (>= 1.4.10), libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 (>= 2.22.0), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.37.3), libgtk-3-0 (>= 3.21.5), libjson-glib-1.0-0 (>= 0.12.0), libnautilus-extension1a (>= 3.27.90), libnotify4 (>= 0.7.0), libpango-1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0) Recommends: gvfs, yelp Suggests: p7zip-full, arj, lha, lzip, lzma, lzop, ncompress, rpm2cpio, rzip, sharutils, squashfs-tools, unace, unalz, unar, xz-utils, zoo Filename: pool/main/f/file-roller/file-roller_3.36.1-1_amd64.deb Size: 252252 MD5sum: a2027d5202988f46d6d638255b1fb6e0 SHA1: 93a65347f07c9db4cf5a896007d35d01fe4eb3ab SHA256: 831223b01eb6602168b8f6c33dd24eaef71077ecc2125581d678eb0cae8094d0 Homepage: https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/FileRoller Description-en: archive manager for GNOME File-roller is an archive manager for the GNOME environment. It allows you to:
- Create and modify archives.
- View the content of an archive.
- View a file contained in an archive.
- Extract files from the archive.
File-roller supports the following formats:
- Tar (.tar) archives, including those 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), lzma (.tar.lzma) and xz (.tar.xz)
- Zip archives (.zip)
- Jar archives (.jar, .ear, .war)
- 7z archives (.7z)
- iso9660 CD images (.iso)
- Lha archives (.lzh)
- Archiver archives (.ar)
- Comic book archives (.cbz)
- Single files compressed with gzip (.gz), bzip (.bz), bzip2 (.bz2), compress (.Z), lzip (.lz), lzop (.lzo), lzma (.lzma) and xz (.xz)
File-roller can extract following formats:
- Cabinet archives (.cab)
- Debian binary packages (.deb)
- Xar archives (.xar)
File-roller doesn’t perform archive operations by itself, but relies on standard tools for this. Task: ubuntu-desktop-minimal, ubuntu-desktop, ubuntu-budgie-desktop
There are three methods to install file-roller on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install file-roller Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install file-roller using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install file-roller
Install file-roller Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install file-roller using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install file-roller
Install file-roller Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install file-roller using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install file-roller
How To Uninstall file-roller on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the file-roller package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove file-roller
Uninstall file-roller And Its Dependencies
To uninstall file-roller and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove file-roller
Remove file-roller Configurations and Data
To remove file-roller configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge file-roller
Remove file-roller configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove file-roller configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge file-roller
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install file-roller package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
