This is the distribution of File Roller, an archive manager utility for the
GNOME environment.

* General Information

 File Roller is an archive manager for the GNOME environment.  With File Roller
 you can : create and modify archives; view the content of an archive; view a 
 file contained in the archive; extract files from the archive.

 File Roller is only a front-end (a graphical interface) to various archiving 
 programs. The supported file types are :
    * Tar archives uncompressed (.tar) or compressed with
          * gzip (.tar.gz , .tgz)
          * bzip (.tar.bz , .tbz)
          * bzip2 (.tar.bz2 , .tbz2)
          * compress (.tar.Z , .taz)
          * lzop (.tar.lzo , .tzo)
    * Zip archives (.zip)
    * Jar archives (.jar , .ear , .war)
    * Lha archives (.lzh)
    * Rar archives (.rar)
    * Single files compressed with gzip, bzip, bzip2, compress, lzop

* Licensing

  This program is released under the terms of the GNU General Public
  License (GNU GPL).  
  You can find a copy of the license in the file COPYING.

* Dependencies

  In order to use this program you need a working GNOME environment
  version 1.0 or higher, with the development tools installed properly.

  Also you need the following packages : 
          * gnome-libs >= 1.2.0
          * gnome-vfs >= 1.0.0
          * gdk-pixbuf >= 0.9.0
          * libglade >= 0.14
          * oaf >= 0.6.5
          * bonobo >= 1.0.0

* Install

  ./configure 
  make
  make install (this may require administrator priviledges)
