Ark Support for .gz Gzip files

[undoIT]

It seems that Ark only supports reading and extracting .gz archives. Is there any way to create and edit Gzipped archives with Ark?

[Rog131]

Re: Ark Support for .gz Gzip files

With the KDE 4.2 / Ark 2.12:

The program can handle various formats such as tar, gzip, bzip2,
zip, rar and lha (if appropriate command-line programs are installed).

Package ark suggests: ncompress, unzip, zip, zoo, bzip2, p7zip-full


Here the Ark creates and edits the Gzipped archives. The easiest way to create: right click the file/directory > Compress > Gzip-compressed tar archive...

[undoIT]

Re: Ark Support for .gz Gzip files

the gzip package is installed. i know that it is able to deal with tar.gz archives. but it seems to only be able to read and extra .gz archives.

[Rog131]

Re: Ark Support for .gz Gzip files

Hmm - what tells (konsole) packing ?


Example:

Packing with the Ark:

ark --add-to Test.tar.gz Test.txt

and check, the Test.tar.gz is:

file Test.tar.gz

Test.tar.gz: gzip compressed data, from Unix, last modified: Wed Jun 10 23:36:28 2009

and it has the original Test.txt file

man ark

SYNOPSIS
ark [--extract--extract-to--add--add-to--guess-name] [folder] [files] [archive] [KDE Generic Options]
[Qt Generic Options]

...
--add-to files archive
Add files to archive. Quit when finished. archive will be created if it does not exist.
...

man file

NAME
file - determine file type