Extracting tarball in Nautilus

[Dotan Cohen]

On 14 May 2010 05:48, Karl Auer <kauer at biplane.com.au> wrote:
> I'm the other Karl :-)
>
> Here's how it works for me, admittedly from within Gnome. I don't know
> if the archive manager is the same app in both environments.
>
> If I right click on the archive (tarball), either on my Desktop or from
> within Nautilus, I can select "Open with...". If the archive is a known
> type like .tar.gz, then the Archive manager utility is presented as the
> default, and will be invoked if I just left-click on the archive.
>
> Either way the Archive Manager opens and the files at the top level of
> the archive are presented. There is a button at the top of the Archive
> Manager labelled "Extract".
>
> If I click "Extract", I am presented with a file dialogue allowing me to
> select a target directory, or create a new folder (button at top far
> right). There are a couple of extraction options at the bottom of the
> dialogue - recreate folders, overwrite files etc.
>
> If I hit the "Save" button, the archive is extracted into the selected
> directory, and I get a dialogue asking if I want to open the folder.
>
> The File->"Extract..." menu item and the right-click pop-up menu on any
> item inside the archive all do the same thing, except that if I have
> "drilled down" in the archive, only the currently selected item will be
> extracted.
>
> There is no "Extract here" option as such, but if you just click
> "Extract" and then "save" you get that effect.
>

Thanks! When I try to extract with the Archive Mounter (as the default
action is called on this system, in English) to the same directory as
tarball itself, nothing happens. No feedback, no new folder.

When I try to extract with Ark (I think it might ba a KDE app) then I
get his error (translated):
"This location is not supported".



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