https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=505637

--- Comment #4 from Michael <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to 2wxsy58236r3 from comment #3)
> I wonder if this is due to Fedora's 7-Zip packaging.
> 
> Fedora patches 7-Zip's source code to find 7z.so in `/usr/libexec/7zip`. It
> installs the `7z` binary under `/usr/bin` and `7z.so` under
> `/usr/libexec/7zip`.
> 
> Meanwhile, Arch packages in another way: it does not patch the source code,
> installs 7-Zip under `/usr/lib/7zip`, and creates wrapper scripts under
> `/usr/bin`.
> 
> Perhaps you can try whether copying `7z.so` to `/usr/bin` can workaround the
> issue?

Indeed it does work. Ark successfully extracts .7z files (also password
protected archives) if '7z.so' is copied to 
I will report the packaging issue at Fedora.
Thank you for the assistance.

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