Extracting tarball in Nautilus

[Dotan Cohen]

On 14 May 2010 05:56, Karl Auer <kauer at biplane.com.au> wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-05-14 at 12:48 +1000, Karl Auer wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>> There is no "Extract here" option as such, but if you just click
>> "Extract" and then "save" you get that effect.
>
> Er, just read your query more carefully. In Gnome, there *is* an
> "Extract here" option on the context menu, whether you right click on
> the item on the desktop or from within nautilus. And it extracts the
> item to the directory containing the archive, although it does make sure
> there is a containing subdirectory (i.e., it creates a subdirectory
> based on the archive's name, and extracts into that)..
>

Yes, that is exactly how KDE does it as well. I suspect a relation
between the missing menu item and the error that I get when I try to
extract "here".

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