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FrancescoA

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Registered: 2009-04-27

Posts: 38

"Extract here" in Thunar fail

Can I adjust this somehow. Obviously, the unpacker is missing. How can I change the path or the unpacker itself? it says: "Failed to extract files. No suitable archive manager found."

s0ulslack

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From: Idaho

Registered: 2005-12-25

Posts: 291

Re: "Extract here" in Thunar fail

What format are you trying to extract?  If its bla.rar, install unrar... if its bla.zip, install unzip, if its bla.bz2, install bzip2 etc

FrancescoA

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Registered: 2009-04-27

Posts: 38

Re: "Extract here" in Thunar fail

What format are you trying to extract?  If its bla.rar, install unrar... if its bla.zip, install unzip, if its bla.bz2, install bzip2 etc

zip file. and unzip is installed. On one pc, this is working, on the other not.

Squall

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Registered: 2009-03-07

Posts: 24

Re: "Extract here" in Thunar fail

Have you installed squeeze? :?

s0ulslack

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From: Idaho

Registered: 2005-12-25

Posts: 291

Re: "Extract here" in Thunar fail

Squeeze is a forked xarchiver that hasn't been updated in awhile. Definitely doesn't make much sense that it works on one and not the other...  check the MimeTypes in /usr/share/applications/xarchiver.desktop on each computer, see if they're same/close and both contain application/x-zip;application/x-zip-compressed;application/zip;multipart/x-zip etc

FrancescoA

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Registered: 2009-04-27

Posts: 38

Re: "Extract here" in Thunar fail

Squeeze is a forked xarchiver that hasn't been updated in awhile. Definitely doesn't make much sense that it works on one and not the other...  check the MimeTypes in /usr/share/applications/xarchiver.desktop on each computer, see if they're same/close and both contain application/x-zip;application/x-zip-compressed;application/zip;multipart/x-zip etc

Thank you, that was the reason. No xarchiver.desktop exists.