How do I unzip an encrypted 7z archive with archive manager?

**Nerv68** · March 15th, 2013

I have an encrypted 7z archive and when I open it with archive manager it says "an error occured while loading the archive". (the file is not corrupt)
Is there something I need to install to get it to work?
What about RAR?

(using Mint 14)

**Perfect Storm** · March 15th, 2013

Moved to Other OS/Distro Talk.

**schragge** · March 15th, 2013

Code:

sudo apt-get install p7zip{,-full}

After that the archive manager will be able to handle 7z archives.

**sudodus** · March 15th, 2013

Originally Posted by Nerv68

I have an encrypted 7z archive and when I open it with archive manager it says "an error occured while loading the archive". (the file is not corrupt)
Is there something I need to install to get it to work?
What about RAR?

(using Mint 14)

I made a small encrypted archive with two text files from the current directory with the following command

Code:

7z a -mhe=on -p test.7z .

(the password is prompted)

It worked without issues to open it with the default archive program in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

Code:

file-roller test.7z

Of course it wants the password, but after that I can view the files. (Use your appropriate file name)

I think either your 7z file is corrupt, or your file-roller does not have 7z tools. Install it with the following command and try again

Code: