extract here (xfce)

Keith w7kew-linux at comcast.net
Sun Mar 24 04:09:55 UTC 2013


On Sun, 24 Mar 2013 04:00:05 +0000 (UTC)
Thufir Hawat <hawat.thufir at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm running 12.10 on older hardware, so only have xfce and not, well, 
> unity or whatever the current fancy GUI is.
> 
> In any event, I don't seem to have the option to right click an
> archive (tar.gz, zip, jar) and select "extract here".  How can I
> configure that option?
> 
> Or, is that GNOME/KDE only kind of stuff?
> 
> 
> 
> thanks,
> 
> Thufir
> 
> 
That is built into the Gnome KDE interface. You will have to use the
archiver program to unarchive with a GUI or you can use the command
line "tar" command

tar xvzf filename.tar.gz 
tar xvjf filename.tar.bz2
unzip filename.zip






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