Beyond Linux® From Scratch (systemd edition) - Version 7.6-systemd

Chapter 34. GNOME Applications

File-Roller-3.12.2

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-7.6 systemd 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+-3.12.2 and yelp-xsl-3.12.0

Recommended

JSON-GLib-1.0.2, libarchive-3.1.2, libnotify-0.7.6, and Nautilus-3.12.2

Optional (Runtime)

UnRar-5.1.7, 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        \
            --disable-packagekit \
            --disable-static &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user: 

make install &&
chmod -v 755 /usr/libexec/file-roller/isoinfo.sh

Command Explanations

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

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

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

Contents

Installed Programs: file-roller, isoinfo.sh, and rpm2cpio
Installed Libraries: libnautilus-fileroller.so (Nautilus Extension)
Installed Directories: /usr/libexec/file-roller, /usr/share/file-roller, and /usr/share/help/*/file-roller

Short Descriptions

file-roller

is an archive manager for GNOME.

Last updated on 2014-08-25 18:22:00 -0700