Thunar Extract Here

[Frogs Hair]

Hi,

I am running the XFCE session on 12.10 and had been using Nautilus. A day ago I changed the default file manager to Thunar for this session and found it to be much faster in XFCE.

The problem is the Extract Here selection for packages doesn't open the packages. I have to use Extract To and re-select the directory I want to extract in before the file roller opens the package.

Due to inexperience with Thunar I don't know if this is normal or just because I am using the XFCE session and not the Xubuntu desktop. This is a minor inconvenience and any thoughts would be appreciated.

[cmcanulty]

I can use thunar and I do get the extract here rt cl option

[Frogs Hair]

Thanks, I will play around with the default applications for opening packages.

[vasa1]

I remember reading that it is an "upstream" bug. I'll edit this post if I find a reference.

[Frogs Hair]

This may have been a glitch.I created a package archive and extracted it and then tested with a package I downloaded and now all is well.

[LewisTM]

There seems to be a bug with file-roller in 12.10.
On my machine, the extract-here operation makes the program crash. Never a good sign :C

An easy fix, which I just tested, is to uninstall file-roller and make sure squeeze is installed. Thunar - via its archive-plugin - will automatically detect that and use squeeze for it's archive operations.

Cheers!

[Frogs Hair]

Squeeze is installed and and extract is now working. Ill see how it goes as I use Thunar more.

Thank You All.

[PerLowgren]

I replaced file-roller with squeeze and it worked until I had to extract a file-format unsupported by squeeze, so I found this alternative solution: http://askubuntu.com/questions/52965/thunar-archive-plugin-not-working

Edit the file gnome-file-roller.tap which on my machine is located here:
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/thunar-archive-plugin/gnome-file-roller.tap
Replace:

file-roller "--extract-to=$(pwd)" --extract-here --force "$@"With:

file-roller --extract-here --force "$@"

[MorningWood]

I replaced file-roller with squeeze and it worked until I had to extract a file-format unsupported by squeeze, so I found this alternative solution: http://askubuntu.com/questions/52965/thunar-archive-plugin-not-working

Edit the file gnome-file-roller.tap which on my machine is located here:
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/thunar-archive-plugin/gnome-file-roller.tap
Replace:

file-roller "--extract-to=$(pwd)" --extract-here --force "$@"With:

file-roller --extract-here --force "$@"

Thank You PerLowgren, this worked beautifully.

[pqwoerituytrueiwoq]

the copy of file-roller in the proposed repo is fixed
look in the updates section of software sources

[SantaFe]

Yep, got the latest updates via Update Manager a couple of days ago & it mentioned File-Roller was one of them. After updating, Thunar & PCmanFM both extract here just fine. ;)