Yep this is boring, that if you have gnome 2.14. And there is a bug or something in file-roller, then you can't just update the file-roller without updating a lot of other files, and that will break other functions. = you need to update the whole lot only for a single app.
And it's really hard to find standalone apps like you can to MS like winrar winzip etc,etc.
In MS you can just update the archiver you use.
(start flaming)
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