Create zip archive fails from thunar/caja

**ajgreeny** · April 17th, 2018

Commented on the bug that I also have this problem, though I have not the same amount of knowledge of the whole process that you obviously have, and was not aware of the process to creating a temporary archive in the source folder prior to saving it in a destination folder where I have write permissions, ie, my home.

**pqwoerituytrueiwoq** · April 17th, 2018

I managed to figure that out when i saw it worked in directories i owned i suspected it may be a permission issue, so i tried it as root when it worked i used ls -la to confirm my suspicions
now if i just knew where in the source code to look i could probably make a patch

**flocculant** · April 18th, 2018

Did you add something to Thunar to do this? Not seeing the possibility to create archive in Thunar here.

(Possibly because Thunar 1.7.2 Gtk3 version)

**pqwoerituytrueiwoq** · April 18th, 2018

Originally Posted by flocculant

Did you add something to Thunar to do this? Not seeing the possibility to create archive in Thunar here.

(Possibly because Thunar 1.7.2 Gtk3 version)

the option is there on a stock live ISO of xubuntu 18.04
This appears to be a bug in engrampa, verified via command line, see bug reports for details
thunar has a plugin supporting both file-roller and engrampa i believe the package is thunar-archive-plugin
.tap file are located in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/thunar-archive-plugin/

my upsteam report has more in-depth details, see downstream bug report for link

**ajgreeny** · April 19th, 2018

I did not install any particular package to get the ability to create an archive using the context menu from a right click, so I presume the thunar-archive-plugin must be installed by default.

I will check next time I boot to the 18.04 install to see what exactly I have installed and will report back.

**pqwoerituytrueiwoq** · April 19th, 2018

I assume flocculant compiled thunar him/her self
on the install notes for thunar-archive-plug is seems they need to have the same prefix, so i guess that is why flocculant's thunar lacks that option
http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/thu...archive-plugin

**ajgreeny** · April 20th, 2018

Thunar-archive-plugin is a suggested package of thunar itself but is installed in the default Xubuntu 18.04 (and 16.04) installation.

**flocculant** · April 20th, 2018

Originally Posted by pqwoerituytrueiwoq

I assume flocculant compiled thunar him/her self
on the install notes for thunar-archive-plug is seems they need to have the same prefix, so i guess that is why flocculant's thunar lacks that option
http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/thu...archive-plugin

Yea - been testing a lot of the 'not in Xubuntu yet Gtk3 things' thunar is one of them