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

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Michael wrote:
> 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?


I hadn't but I have now.  While I got the option back, it isn't working
like it used too.  The way I used to do it, I select extract to sub
directory.  That comes in handy when you have lots of .zip or .tar files
to extract.  What it does is create a new directory with the same name,
less the extension, as the original .zip or .tar file and then puts the
extracted files inside that directory.  It repeats for every .zip file. 
On this new thing, I selected Extract to and in the next window I
selected Extraction into subfolder.  Thing is, if I have more than one
.zip file, it puts ALL the contents of ALL .zip files into ONE
directory, overwriting/renaming etc duplicates.  That's not what I
want.  I did a search, I found someone else with the same complaint.  I
didn't find a proper way to accomplish the same thing it used to do tho.

I tried to figure out how to do this on the command line but my head
hurts.  Banging that wall isn't any fun. 

Anyone been able to figure out how to do this?  I got a few hundred .zip
files and doing them one by one just isn't a good option. 

Dale

:-)  :-)