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Start File Roller

1. Start File Roller from the launcher or desktop overview

   The program is opened and reports that no archive is open.

Create an archive

1. Use Ctrl+n or navigate the main menu to "New Archive". Type a name with an archive extension, e.g. u.tar.
2. Use the + button to add some stuff to it.

   tar tf u.tar lists the files that were added in the previous step.

Inspect an archive

1. wget https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/primary/+sourcefiles/file-roller/44.3-1/file-roller_44.3.orig.tar.xz.

2. file-roller file-roller_44.3.orig.tar.xz.

   File Roller opens and you after entering file-roller-44.3 you see its source tree.

   Alt+Return or 'main menu -> Properites' identifies the archive as an application/x-xz-compressed-tar.

Extract an archive

1. Click the 'extract' button on the upper left corner.
2. Choose '/tmp' as the target location.

   Dialog says that extraction completed successfully.

3. Click show the files.

   Your file manager opens and displays the /tmp directory. The file-roller-44.3 directory is inside.

Alter an archive's contents

1. Select any file, right-click it and rename.

   tar tf file-roller_44.3.orig.tar.xz reflects the rename.

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