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

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

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-item-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

:-)  :-)