File-Roller-3.30.1

#### Beyond Linux® From Scratch - Version 2019-02-27

### Chapter 34. GNOME Applications

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# File-Roller-3.30.1

## Introduction to File Roller

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

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-8.4 platform.

### Note

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

### Package Information

- Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/file-roller/3.30/file-roller-3.30.1.tar.xz

- Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/file-roller/3.30/file-roller-3.30.1.tar.xz

- Download MD5 sum: c4f1066c5aaf2cb8285229a061d82b96

- Download size: 1.4 MB

- Estimated disk space required: 26 MB

- Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU

### File Roller Dependencies

#### Required

GTK+-3.24.5 and itstool-2.0.5

#### Recommended

cpio-2.12, desktop-file-utils-0.23, JSON-GLib-1.4.4, libarchive-3.3.3, libnotify-0.7.7, and Nautilus-3.30.5

#### Optional (Runtime)

UnRar-5.7.2, UnZip-6.0, and Zip-3.0

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/file-roller

## Installation of File Roller

Install File Roller by running the following commands:

    mkdir build &&
    cd    build &&

    meson --prefix=/usr -Dpackagekit=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 &&
    glib-compile-schemas /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas

## Command Explanations

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

## 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.

Last updated on 2019-02-22 07:31:06 -0600

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