Howto: Thunar archive plugin and Xarchiver

August 22, 2006 at 3:00 pm | Posted in tips and tricks, xubuntu | 8 Comments

Currently the Thunar Archive Plugin only supports Ark and File-Roller, but Xarchiver support is available too. Here’s how:

1) Download thunar-archive-plugin_0.2.0-3_i386.deb, libexo-0.3-0_0.3.1.8-1_i386.deb, and xarchiver_0.3.9.2-0ubuntu1_i386.deb:

wget http://samztercomix.com/kim/tech/linux/programs/xarchiver_0.3.9.2-0ubuntu1_i386.deb
wget http://samztercomix.com/kim/tech/linux/programs/libexo-0.3-0_0.3.1.8-1_i386.deb
wget http://samztercomix.com/kim/tech/linux/programs/thunar-archive-plugin_0.2.0-3_i386.deb

2) Install the .deb’s:

sudo dpkg -i thunar-archive-plugin_0.2.0-3_i386.deb libexo-0.3-0_0.3.1.8-1_i386.deb xarchiver_0.3.9.2-0ubuntu1_i386.deb

3) Download libmd5.so.0 and place it in /usr/lib (otherwise, you may have problems starting Thunar):

sudo cp libmd5.so.0 /usr/lib

4) Make a link between /usr/libexec/xarchiver.tap and /usr/lib/xarchiver.tap (in case it doesn’t work):

sudo ln -s /usr/libexec/xarchiver.tap /usr/lib/xarchiver.tap

5) Now, you will be able to extract files with Xarchiver from Thunar. If you have more than one archiving program, a choice will pop up on which one to use.

Note that this doesn’t support .deb’s, .rpm’s, etc. You will have to use the command line for that.