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Thunar - Failed to create archive, no suitable archive manager found Xubuntu ...
Status:
RESOLVED: FIXED
Product:
Thunar-archive-plugin
Component:
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Description Stuart 2017-04-20 21:14:58 CEST
Ever since I installed Xubuntu 16.04.2 I have this weird bug, whenever I try to create an archive from the right-click menu in Thunar I get the following error message:"Failed to create archive. No suitable archive manager found.". When I use the Extract Here option, it works fine, file-roller launches and extracts the archive without a hitch. It seems like file-roller is not linked to the Create Archive in the right click menu of Thunar.

I googled my problem and found some old forum posts with some workarounds but none of them seem to work anymore, at least for me.

I tried:

    thunar-archive-plugin not working

    https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=31871

    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=215241

Does anyone know how to re-associate file-roller to the Create Archive right click menu launcher? Or how I can just simply fix it?
Comment 1 ToZ editbugs 2017-04-21 02:25:47 CEST
Possible duplicate of: https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10826?
Comment 2 Stuart 2017-04-21 13:33:42 CEST
No, since I have the correct named symlink (org.gnome.FileRoller.desktop) in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/thunar-archive-plugin/ .
Comment 3 Stuart 2017-04-21 13:34:15 CEST
I've meant .tap
Comment 4 Stuart 2017-04-24 19:57:27 CEST
There seems to have been a permission issue after the upgrade to 16.04.2 .

Proper permission have been set and now everything works like a charm.

Bug #13512

Reported by:
Stuart
Reported on: 2017-04-20
Last modified on: 2017-04-24

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Assignee:
Jannis Pohlmann
CC List:
2 users

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