It's working for me, I'm not on amd64 though. I tihnk file roller should use ar which should be installed by package binutils. Is ar installed on your system?
** Changed in: file-roller (Ubuntu)
Status: Unconfirmed => Needs Info
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File Roller can't view or extract deb files
https://launchpad.net/bugs/70187
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