Hi,

I need a really quick fix to my problem; I need to be able to open .zip files. Does anyone know an application that can unpack them, and hopefully comes in a .deb download? I REALLY hate .tar.gz files.

EDIT: this is for Xubuntu 6.06 by the way.

unzip?

Should be in the Ubuntu repositories

or there is xarchiver or ark (which i believe is in the kdeaddons package)

Why??? "tar -xzvf <filename>" too hard??

Do you prefer longer downloads and dealing with multiple files that have not been archived?

unzip for .zip--it is in my distros by default
gunzip for .gz--ditto

xarchiver is a nice gui archiver...
download and compile source if you want rar capability and stuff like that... the latest release. you know the drill.

I'm having the same problem as the OP. I tried the command but ended up with: "bash: syntax error near unexpected token `newline'" What does that mean?

Also, I've received this cheery news: "Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors"

Still trying to figure out how to navigate a directory and have googled until smoke comes out of my computer, trying to find something I can understand. As in, "Type this... and then press enter and then type this...". Even my dogs are ignoring me from repeated neglect of time and attention. H-e-l-p!

Archiving...someone please explain. Anyone who doesn't know how to unzip a sticky, messy tarball is lost now...and I'm one of those as yet.

PS- Pixellany, what distros are you using? Anything like that for Ubuntu that you know of?

Ark, that's a KDE package.