create archive on mandriva 2006

varun_saa · 07-27-2006, 11:43 PM

Hello,

Previously I was able right click my
mouse and create an t.gz archive.

On mandriva 2006 you don't seem to have
that facility.

Ofcourse on right click it offer to zip.

Which package to install to get this
facility back.

Thanks

Varun

GlennsPref · 07-28-2006, 04:45 PM

Check out ark. right click to create an archive. with KDE.

Otherwise you might need to look for and install bzip and gzip, and conversly, bunzip.

They're on the cd's.

I only use those for source files, I haven't needed to create them myself.

Sabinou · 07-29-2006, 10:42 AM

I'm not sure ark's initially included in the right click menu. If not, install the package for KDE-multimedia.

Emmanuel_uk · 07-31-2006, 01:50 AM

http://sourceforge.net/projects/p7zip/
(there might be another utility called 7zip something)

command line only but better compression in some (many?) cases

varun_saa · 07-31-2006, 04:40 AM

I installed anything named tgz or bunzip.

Still not there.

Which package to install ?

Varun

Sabinou · 08-01-2006, 07:49 AM

Varun_saa, do you actually read the replies ?
Install ARK and KDE-MULTIMEDIA.
And voilà, the right-click menu in KDE (and perhaps gnome) will include that.

tytower · 08-02-2006, 03:05 AM

Also if you start "Ark" and then "new" ,you have a choice of what you create with the standard installation . Just change the "filter" to t.gz ,Gzip, zip, tar, whatever you want . No need to install anything else

varun_saa · 08-02-2006, 09:03 AM

Ark gets installed by default.

I have installed kde-multimedia but
no difference.

Any other clue ?

Thanks

Varun

Sabinou · 08-02-2006, 05:14 PM

Hmm, are you using KDE as a desktop, or are you using another desktop ?
If you're a Gnome user, there must be an equivalent for KDE-multimedia, but that I do not know :/

Something could help you, but I don't know that either : where the contents of the right-click contextual menu are stored. If I knew that, it would be possible to read on our disks the things that you should put on your disk :/

tytower · 08-02-2006, 05:16 PM

Can't help with putting it on the right click menu . Two step works also -right click -zip it Open zip file and save as tgz

varun_saa · 08-03-2006, 05:31 AM

I am using KDE.

Varun

ernie · 08-03-2006, 10:09 AM

In the KDE Filemanager, to archive a directory, simply Right-Click the directory, then select "Actions/Archive and encrypt this folder". It works here ...

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tytower · 08-03-2006, 08:18 PM

http://developer.kde.org/documentati...vicemenus.html

the right click items are called servicemenus ,have a look at the above

varun_saa · 08-03-2006, 11:14 PM

[root@nirvana varun]# kde-config --localprefix
/root/.kde/

[root@nirvana varun]# kde-config --prefix
/usr

Further I found only

/usr/share/apps/konqueror/servicemenus/

and not

/opt/kde3/share/apps/konqueror/servicemenus/
/home/varun/.kde3/share/apps/konqueror/servicemenus/

Not sure where to save the text file.

In : /usr/share/apps/konqueror/servicemenus/

I don't see any compress tgz exec file.

Thanks

Varun

tytower · 08-04-2006, 06:21 PM

You are missing the point Man
The post was to give you somewhere to go to find out how the servicemenus work .Thats all

Now you want to tgz a file Yes?

Select the file , right click ,select actions ,archive and the program Ark should start which allows you to name the new archive and to select the filter you want.
You choose .tgz

So now you have what you want No??

If Ark doesn't start like that for you then do the same but choose open with and choose Ark