file-roller command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix file-roller command not found error message

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

file-roller: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: file-roller: command not found

Solutions to file-roller: command not found

How To Fix file-roller: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu file-roller is provided by file-roller package.

file-roller is:

File-roller is an archive manager for the GNOME environment. It allows you to:

  • Create and modify archives.
  • View the content of an archive.
  • View a file contained in an archive.
  • Extract files from the archive.

File-roller supports the following formats:

  • Tar (.tar) archives, including those compressed with gzip (.tar.gz, .tgz), bzip (.tar.bz, .tbz), bzip2 (.tar.bz2, .tbz2), compress (.tar.Z, .taz), lzip (.tar.lz, .tlz), lzop (.tar.lzo, .tzo), lzma (.tar.lzma) and xz (.tar.xz)
  • Zip archives (.zip)
  • Jar archives (.jar, .ear, .war)
  • 7z archives (.7z)
  • iso9660 CD images (.iso)
  • Lha archives (.lzh)
  • Archiver archives (.ar)
  • Comic book archives (.cbz)
  • Single files compressed with gzip (.gz), bzip (.bz), bzip2 (.bz2), compress (.Z), lzip (.lz), lzop (.lzo), lzma (.lzma) and xz (.xz)

File-roller can extract following formats:

  • Cabinet archives (.cab)
  • Debian binary packages (.deb)
  • Xar archives (.xar)

File-roller doesn’t perform archive operations by itself, but relies on standard tools for this.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install file-roller

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install file-roller.

sudo apt -y install file-roller

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install file-roller

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix file-roller command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.