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

[Michael <confabulate@kintzios.com>]

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On Monday 13 January 2025 04:47:39 Greenwich Mean Time Dale wrote:
> eric wrote:
> > 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-ite
> > m-for-dolphin-file-manager
> > 
> > 
> > Eric
> 
> That seems to be the thing I was missing.  I was running out of hair
> over here.  LOL  Once I installed that, the option appeared.  I didn't
> even have to restart Dolphin.  I did notice there is no option to
> extract to a sub-directory tho.  May have to look into that some more. 
> May be a option or something. 
> 
> Thanks much. 
> 
> Dale
> 
> :-)  :-) 

Ark is brought in by kde-apps/kdeutils-meta as a dependency.  Have you not 
installed kde-apps/kdeutils-meta?

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