Extracting tarball in Nautilus

[Karl Auer]

On Fri, 2010-05-14 at 05:12 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> I am a KDE user using Nautilus for a few hours. How does one simply
> extract a tarball to a folder in cwd in Nautilus? Googling the issue
> leads me to believe that there should be an "extract here" item on the
> context menu, however I don't have such an item. I'm on Kubuntu 9.10.
> 
> Karl, please do not reply. Thanks.

I'm the other Karl :-)

Here's how it works for me, admittedly from within Gnome. I don't know
if the archive manager is the same app in both environments.

If I right click on the archive (tarball), either on my Desktop or from
within Nautilus, I can select "Open with...". If the archive is a known
type like .tar.gz, then the Archive manager utility is presented as the
default, and will be invoked if I just left-click on the archive.

Either way the Archive Manager opens and the files at the top level of
the archive are presented. There is a button at the top of the Archive
Manager labelled "Extract".

If I click "Extract", I am presented with a file dialogue allowing me to
select a target directory, or create a new folder (button at top far
right). There are a couple of extraction options at the bottom of the
dialogue - recreate folders, overwrite files etc.

If I hit the "Save" button, the archive is extracted into the selected
directory, and I get a dialogue asking if I want to open the folder.

The File->"Extract..." menu item and the right-click pop-up menu on any
item inside the archive all do the same thing, except that if I have
"drilled down" in the archive, only the currently selected item will be
extracted.
 
There is no "Extract here" option as such, but if you just click
"Extract" and then "save" you get that effect.

Regards, K.

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