Ark fails to produce zip archive instead making gzip with the zip suffix

[Rog132]

Few bug reports

- Ubuntu: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...k/+bug/1388532
- Kubuntu ppa: https://bugs.launchpad.net/kubuntu-ppa/+bug/1388538


Ubuntu 14.10

Package ark (4:4.14.1-0ubuntu1)
Package ark (4:4.14.2-0ubuntu1~ubuntu14.10~ppa1)

Ark: 2.19

Steps to reproduce:

1) Compress a file to the .zip format with the Ark. Either from the Ark or from the file manager context menu.
2) Unpack the .zip file with the 'unzip'command

There is an error message (Test.zip)

Archive: Test.zip
End-of-central-directory signature not found. Either this file is not
a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive. In the
latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found on
the last disk(s) of this archive.
unzip: cannot find zipfile directory in one of Test.zip or
Test.zip.zip, and cannot find Test.zip.ZIP, period.

The file command is telling:

file Test.zip
Test.zip: gzip compressed data, last modified: Sun Nov 2 11:54:49 2014, from Unix

The Ubuntu package ark (4:4.14.1-0ubuntu1 & 4:4.14.2-0ubuntu1~ubuntu14.10~ppa1) has a patch 'use_libarchive_for_zip_files'. When compiling the Ark without the patch the Ark is compressing to the .zip format.

Then the file is identified as:

file Test.zip
Test.zip: Zip archive data, at least v2.0 to extract

and the unzip can unpack it:

unzip Test.zip
Archive: Test.zip
inflating: Test.txt

[GreyGeek]

Rog, your test.zip file is dated 6 hours after your post. Are you in England?

[ubersoft]

I'm having exactly the same problem. Has anyone found a reason for this, or a way to fix it?

[NickStone]

I replicated the task by creating a zip file of two odb files using the context-menu entry to create a zip file.

file business.odb.zip
business.odb.zip: Zip archive data, at least v2.0 to extract

I then unzipped the file using the command unzip

unzip business.odb.zip    
Archive:  business.odb.zip
replace business.odb? [y]es, [n]o, [A]ll, [N]one, [r]ename: y
  inflating: business.odb            
replace employers.odb? [y]es, [n]o, [A]ll, [N]one, [r]ename: y
  inflating: employers.odb

I don't appear to have the bug on my system. KDE version 4.14.1

[Rog132]

I'm having exactly the same problem. Has anyone found a reason for this, or a way to fix it?

Did you read the bug reports ?

Workarounds:

1) Build the Ark without the Debian 'use_libarchive_for_zip_files' patch.
or
2) Download an older package - You could download packages from the Trusty: http://packages.ubuntu.com -> http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?ke...ll&section=all


At here - building the Ark ( https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+ppas?name_filter=ark -> https://launchpad.net/~samrog131/+archive/ubuntu/ppa ) without the Debian patch and installing it.



Locking the package version with the Muon package manager.



More ways to hold/pin packages: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PinningHowto

... Are you in England?

I don't think so: https://www.google.com/search?site=i...ile+in+finland

[GreyGeek]

...
I don't think so: https://www.google.com/search?site=i...ile+in+finland

Ah, one hour farther East! That makes sense. WOW, that is a huge collection of interesting pictures. There is even one about one of my favorite languages: