Just ran the latest Stable update to make sure updating didn’t fix the issue. However, it seems as though Ark (KDE Archive manager) is not able to create .zip files on this install. It does work fine on another machine, also running Manjaro. As far as I can tell, I have all the dependencies for Ark installed, as well as all the related zip packages (libzip, zip, 7zip).
I can also confirm that the libzip (“Full zip support”) plugin is listed and enabled in Ark’s plugin settings.
If I right-click files in Dolphin I get a message saying “No suitable plugin found. Ark does not seem to support this file type.” and if I open Ark and try to make a new archive directly from the application, there is no option for a standard .zip file.
I am able to open .zip files with Ark though.
Surely something is misconfiguration or missing… but what, and where to start looking?
Thanks.
yay -Qs | grep zip shows that I have the following packages installed:
Hmm - works here - and I don’t even have zip installed - but all the others that you have.
this is the output I get from your command:
yay -Qs | grep zip
local/7zip 24.09-3
local/bzip2 1.0.8-6
local/gzip 1.13-4
local/lib32-bzip2 1.0.8-4
Compression library implementing the deflate compression method found in gzip and PKZIP (32-bit)
Heavily optimized library for DEFLATE/zlib/gzip compression and decompression
local/libzip 1.11.3-1
C library for reading, creating, and modifying zip archives
local/minizip 1:1.3.1-2
Mini zip and unzip based on zlib
rga: ripgrep, but also search in PDFs, E-Books, Office documents, zip, tar.gz, etc.
Compression library implementing the deflate compression method found in gzip and PKZIP
… it has got more detail - it looks different than yours, for that same command
… I have the lib32... versions as well because I installed wine to test some Windows application
Output of this command (formatted according to forum requirements) may be useful for those wishing to help:
inxi --filter --verbosity=8
or the short form:
inxi -zv8
Be prepared to provide more information and outputs from other commands whenever asked. It’s equally important to provide as much actionable information as possible in your first post, rather than simply indicating there is a problem.
Does that not just give a bunch of hardware info? Anything specific you’re looking for there? I’d think this would be more a software issue than hardware. I can post if it’s actually useful…
I’m not looking for anything specific. We do try to maximise the opportunity of others to see anything that might possibly be contributing to an issue.
As an existing member, you should already be aware that system information is commonly asked of those requesting Support. It allows many data points to be presented without needing to play the game of “100 questions”.
I fixed it. I thought it was strange that Ark was offering a XLS type archive, so I poked around in the file extension type settings under Default Applications and found this.
and corrected it to this
Mod edit:- Please avoid posting images when a simple decription will suffice; for example: “I poked around and found the problem with the extension type and corrected it”.
No idea how it got to be that way, but all is well now and I can even create zip archives via right click in Dolphin
If you ever considered using RAR compression as well as ZIP via the Dolphin GUI, I find that the official RAR (for Linux) from RARLAB integrates quite nicely, once it’s installed to ~/local/bin (example).
