Beyond Linux® From Scratch - Version 2012-05-20

Chapter 31. GNOME Additional Packages

File-Roller-3.4.2

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-7.0 platform.

[Note]

Note

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

Package Information

File Roller Dependencies

Required

gnome-doc-utils-0.20.10 and Gtk+-3.4.3

Recommended

Nautilus-3.4.2 and Rarian-0.8.1

Optional (Runtime)

Unrar-4.1.1, 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: 

./configure --prefix=/usr \
            --libexecdir=/usr/lib \
            --enable-magic \
            --disable-packagekit \
            --disable-static &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user: 

make install

Command Explanations

--enable-magic: Enables use libmagic to detect file type.

--disable-packagekit: This parameter disables use of PackageKit which isn't suitable for BLFS.

--disable-scrollkeeper: Use this parameter if you have installed Rarian but wish to disable the updates to the Scrollkeeper database.

--enable-gtk-doc: Use this parameter if GTK-Doc is installed and you wish to rebuild and install the API documentation.

Contents

Installed Program: file-roller
Installed Directories: /usr/lib/file-roller and /usr/share/gnome/help/file-roller

Short Descriptions

file-roller

is an archive manager for GNOME.

Last updated on 2012-05-16 16:39:28 +0000