Beyond Linux® From Scratch (systemd edition) - Version 8.4

Chapter 34. GNOME Applications

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]

Note

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

Package Information

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 05:31:06 -0800