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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