Alternatives to File Roller
The GNOME desktop's archive manager for creating, browsing and extracting compressed archives. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
File Roller
The GNOME desktop's archive manager for creating, browsing and extracting compressed archives.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as File Roller.
Ark
KDE's graphical archive manager for browsing, creating, extracting and modifying compressed archives.
Ark is KDE's archive manager, fitting best on Plasma instead of GNOME, with file previews, disc image support and a Windows build as well as Linux.
PeaZip
A cross-platform archive manager that reads over two hundred formats and has a real file manager built in.
PeaZip reads over 200 formats on Windows, macOS and Linux, adds encryption, hashing and file manager features, and is not tied to any desktop environment.
Engrampa
The MATE desktop's graphical archive manager for creating, browsing and extracting compressed files.
Engrampa is MATE's archive manager, integrating with the Caja file manager rather than GNOME, and relies on external command-line tools for many formats.
Xarchiver
A lightweight GTK archive manager for Linux and FreeBSD that works independently of the desktop environment.
Xarchiver is a lightweight GTK archiver that works independently of the desktop environment, suits Xfce or LXDE, and also runs on FreeBSD.
Arqiver
A simple Qt archive manager for Linux built on libarchive, gzip and 7z.
Arqiver is a small Qt archive manager using bsdtar and 7z backends, suited to LXQt and other lightweight Qt desktops, with fewer features than File Roller's larger peers.
Deepin Archive Manager
A lightweight Linux archive manager from the Deepin desktop for creating and extracting archives.
Deepin Archive Manager offers a simple compress and extract workflow but depends on Deepin's DTK libraries and integrates best with the Deepin desktop rather than GNOME.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
p7zip
Command-line port of 7-Zip's compression tools for POSIX systems.
bsdtar (libarchive)
Command-line archivers built on libarchive that read and write tar, zip, cpio, ISO and more.
archivemount
A FUSE filesystem that mounts tar, zip and other archives so they can be browsed like folders.
ouch
Command-line tool that compresses and extracts archives without format-specific flags.
dtrx
A command-line tool that extracts many archive formats with one consistent command.
