Re: [gentoo-user] Dolphin and extracting archives, .zip at the moment.

[eric <eriic1@cox.net>]

On 1/12/25 20:03, Dale wrote:
> Howdy,
> 
> I think I ran into this on my old rig too.  After some upgrade, I lost
> the option in the right click menu.  I have this issue on the new rig
> and can't find anything to install that makes it work again.  I
> sometimes download archives.  Right now, I have a lot of .zip files.
> I'd like to be able to right click and chose extract here or extract to
> sub-directory.  I looked in Settings and Context for Dolphin and
> installed everything I could find for archives but still nothing.  I
> also looked to see what all was installed with emerge for this feature.
> It looks like I have them all installed.  This is the list of installed
> packages on the system.
> 
> 
> root@Gentoo-1 / # equery list *zip*
>   * Searching for *zip* ...
> [IP-] [  ] app-alternatives/bzip2-1:0
> [IP-] [  ] app-alternatives/gzip-1:0
> [IP-] [  ] app-arch/7zip-24.09:0
> [IP-] [  ] app-arch/bzip2-1.0.8-r5:0/1
> [IP-] [  ] app-arch/gzip-1.13-r1:0
> [IP-] [  ] app-arch/p7zip-17.05-r1:0
> [IP-] [  ] app-arch/unzip-6.0_p27-r1:0
> [IP-] [  ] app-arch/zip-3.0-r7:0
> [IP-] [  ] dev-libs/libzip-1.11.2-r1:0/5
> [IP-] [  ] virtual/perl-Compress-Raw-Bzip2-2.212.0:0
> root@Gentoo-1 / #
> 
> 
> 
> In Dolphin, I've enabled and installed everything I can find related to
> any archive.  They are also all checked to enable.  Still, the right
> click menu no longer shows the option to extract .zip or other types
> I've ran into in the past.
> 
> What is the proper tool to install for this?  What am I missing?  I find
> it hard to believe that this is no longer a option given the vast
> majority of people do this sort of thing in a GUI nowadays.  I have to
> be missing something.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Dale
> 
> :-)  :-)
> 

Hi Dale,

Do you have "Ark" installed? I think that is the archive tool plasma 
uses by default. In a post on stack exchange installing Ark worked for 
one person to give dolphin the right click option to extract archives.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/69849444/extract-here-context-menu-item-for-dolphin-file-manager

Eric