thunar archive plugin cannot integrate with file-roller

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Adel Ahmed · Post by **Adel Ahmed** » Sat Dec 20, 2014 9:29 pm

I have installed thunar, file-roller and the thunar archive manager aiming to use file-roller as the default archive manager for this laptop, the DE is xfce4
when I try extracting via the context window I get the following error:
failed to extract files
no suitable archive manager found.

[ebuild R ] xfce-base/thunar-1.6.3 USE="dbus libnotify startup-notification udisks -debug -exif -pcre {-test}" XFCE_PLUGINS="trash" 0 kB
[ebuild R ] app-arch/file-roller-3.12.2 USE="-nautilus (-packagekit)" 0 kB
[ebuild R ] xfce-extra/thunar-archive-plugin-0.3.1 USE="-debug" 0 kB

these are the same as the use flags on my pc(where file-roller works using the context menu) , I do not remember If I had gone through any other steps

thanks

Adel Ahmed · Post by **Adel Ahmed** » Wed Dec 24, 2014 11:06 pm

help anyone?

Doesn't matter · Post by **Doesn't matter** » Wed Mar 11, 2015 4:39 pm

The thunar-archive-plugin installs .tap files in /usr/libexec/thunar-archive-plugin. It comes with ark.tap, file-roller.tap and gnome-file-roller.tap (which is a symbolic link to file-roller.tap). According to the README the names of these files have to correspond with the names of the .desktop files in /usr/share/applications. Emerging file-roller does install a .desktop file but for whatever reason it's not called file-roller.desktop (or gnome-file-roller.tap), it's called org.gnome.FileRoller.desktop.

Renaming the .desktop file is probably not a good idea but creating a new symbolic link in /usr/libexec/thunar-archive-plugin makes it work.

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cd /usr/libexec/thunar-archive-plugin/
sudo ln -s file-roller.tap org.gnome.FileRoller.tap

kernelOfTruth · Post by **kernelOfTruth** » Tue Mar 17, 2015 1:02 am

seems like things have been updated:

ls -l
total 12
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1306 Mar 17 02:01 ark.tap
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1494 Mar 17 02:01 file-roller.tap
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Mar 17 02:01 gnome-file-roller.tap -> file-roller.tap

and it works

Doesn't matter · Post by **Doesn't matter** » Tue Mar 17, 2015 7:59 am

kernelOfTruth wrote:seems like things have been updated:

ls -l
total 12
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1306 Mar 17 02:01 ark.tap
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1494 Mar 17 02:01 file-roller.tap
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Mar 17 02:01 gnome-file-roller.tap -> file-roller.tap
and it works

I have the same. But in my case the .desktop file in /usr/share/applications is called org.gnome.FileRoller.desktop, so I needed to create another symbolic link in /usr/libexec/thunar-archive-plugin to make it work:

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1306 21. Jan 15:56 ark.tap
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1494 21. Jan 15:56 file-roller.tap
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 21. Jan 15:56 gnome-file-roller.tap -> file-roller.tap
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 11. Mär 17:15 org.gnome.FileRoller.tap -> file-roller.tap

nkichukov · Post by **nkichukov** » Thu Jun 11, 2015 9:06 am

Doesn't matter wrote:
kernelOfTruth wrote:seems like things have been updated:

ls -l
total 12
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1306 Mar 17 02:01 ark.tap
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1494 Mar 17 02:01 file-roller.tap
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Mar 17 02:01 gnome-file-roller.tap -> file-roller.tap
and it works
I have the same. But in my case the .desktop file in /usr/share/applications is called org.gnome.FileRoller.desktop, so I needed to create another symbolic link in /usr/libexec/thunar-archive-plugin to make it work:

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1306 21. Jan 15:56 ark.tap
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1494 21. Jan 15:56 file-roller.tap
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 21. Jan 15:56 gnome-file-roller.tap -> file-roller.tap
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 11. Mär 17:15 org.gnome.FileRoller.tap -> file-roller.tap

I second that:
ln -s file-roller.tap org.gnome.FileRoller.tap

in /usr/libexec/thunar-archive-plugin solved the problem for me as well.

Thank you!