Lost Default Archive Manager

[Daveyboy]

When I select multipe files and select "Create Archive" I now get a message saying


Failed to create archive
no suitable archive manager found


This had worked perfectly well approx 3 weeks ago


Upon further investigation the Archive Manager is no longer showing up in any menu via the main menu.


I installed File Roller via the the install/remove software menu and whilst I now have a File Manager of sorts I still get the same "Failed to create archive" message when using the right click method described earlier. As this was always my prefered method of creating zip files can anyone advise me how to restore the default linux lite archive manager settings please

[bitsnpcs]

Hello Daveyboy,

you can create a new user account this will have default settings.

[Valtam]

What is the output of:

Code:

apt policy thunar-archive-plugin thunar file-roller

[Daveyboy]

Output as follows :-


thunar-archive-plugin:
  Installed: 0.3.1-4
  Candidate: 0.3.1-4
  Version table:
*** 0.3.1-4 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
thunar:
  Installed: 1.6.10-2ubuntu1
  Candidate: 1.6.10-2ubuntu1
  Version table:
*** 1.6.10-2ubuntu1 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
file-roller:
  Installed: 3.16.5-0ubuntu1.2
  Candidate: 3.16.5-0ubuntu1.2
  Version table:
*** 3.16.5-0ubuntu1.2 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main i386 Packages
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
    3.16.4-1ubuntu3 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/main i386 Packages
N: Ignoring file '20auto-upgrades.ucf-dist' in directory '/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/' as it has an invalid filename extension

[Valtam]

You have all the necessary packages.
Click on the Menu, type mime, then open the MIME Type Editor. type in zip in the Filter box and screenshot the result to here. Do the same for the word tar.

[Daveyboy]

Screenshots as requested :-

[Valtam]

Set yours to match mine. Then try again with creating archives.

[Daveyboy]

Hi Jerry


Made the changes as suggested but one would not change - see revised screenshots however, tried creating zip file as per my 1st post and got exactly the same warning message I'm afraid.

[Valtam]

Can you please give the list of all the files you're trying to zip, including their extensions. Then include a screenshot when it errors.

[Daveyboy]

Jerry


It doesn't matter what combination of file types I include, i.e. all one type or any combination of files, in the selection the result is always the same