Beyond Linux® From Scratch (System V Edition) - Version 12.2

Chapter 34. GNOME Applications

File-Roller-44.3

Introduction to File Roller

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

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS 12.2 platform.

[Note]

Note

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

Package Information

File Roller Dependencies

Required

GTK-4.14.5 and itstool-2.0.7

Recommended

cpio-2.15, desktop-file-utils-0.27, JSON-GLib-1.8.0, libarchive-3.7.4, libadwaita-1.5.3, libportal-0.7.1, and Nautilus-46.2

Optional (for the API documentation)

Gi-DocGen-2024.1

Optional (Runtime)

UnRar-7.0.9, UnZip-6.0, 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
[Note]

Note

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
[Note]

Note

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+-3.24.43 installed (for the icon cache) and desktop-file-utils-0.27 (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-2024.1 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