Beyond Linux® From Scratch (System V Edition) - Version r12.4-426

Chapter 34. GNOME Applications

File-Roller-44.5

Introduction to File Roller

File Roller is an archive manager for GNOME with support for tar, bzip2, bzip3, gzip, zip, jar, compress, lzop, zstd, dmg, and many other archive formats.

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Development versions of BLFS may not build or run some packages properly if LFS or dependencies have been updated since the most recent stable versions of the books.

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File Roller is only a graphical interface to archiving utilities such as tar and zip.

Package Information

File Roller Dependencies

Required

GTK-4.20.2 and itstool-2.0.7

Recommended

cpio-2.15, desktop-file-utils-0.28, JSON-GLib-1.10.8, libarchive-3.8.2, libadwaita-1.8.1, libportal-0.9.1, and Nautilus-48.3

Optional (for the API documentation)

Gi-DocGen-2025.5

Optional (Runtime)

UnRar-7.2.1, libarchive-3.8.2, and Zip-3.0

Installation of File Roller

Install File Roller by running the following commands: 

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

meson setup --prefix=/usr       \
            --buildtype=release \
            -D packagekit=false \
            ..                  &&
ninja

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user: 

ninja install &&
chmod -v 0755 /usr/libexec/file-roller/isoinfo.sh
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If you installed the package to your system using a “DESTDIR” method, /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/gschemas.compiled was not updated/created. Create (or update) the file using the following command as the root user: 

glib-compile-schemas /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas
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This package installs icon files into the /usr/share/icons/hicolor hierarchy and desktop files into the /usr/share/applications hierarchy. You can improve system performance and memory usage by updating /usr/share/icons/hicolor/index.theme and /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache. To perform the update you must have GTK-3.24.51 installed (for the icon cache) and desktop-file-utils-0.28 (for the desktop cache) and issue the following commands as the root user: 

gtk-update-icon-cache -qtf /usr/share/icons/hicolor &&
update-desktop-database -q

Command Explanations

--buildtype=release: Specify a buildtype suitable for stable releases of the package, as the default may produce unoptimized binaries.

-D packagekit=false: This switch disables the use of PackageKit which isn't suitable for BLFS.

-D api_docs=enabled: Use this switch if you have Gi-DocGen-2025.5 installed and wish to generate the API documentation.

Contents

Installed Program: file-roller
Installed Libraries: libnautilus-fileroller.so
Installed Directories: /usr/{libexec,share{,/help/*}}/file-roller

Short Descriptions

file-roller

is an archive manager for GNOME