archiver/xarchiver needed for TC- why not available?

[linus72]

Just wondering why archiver/xarchiver or something similar isn't available as a tce for TC?
Something so you can right-click a tar.gz/.zip/.tar.bz2 and extract it there without having to use terminal; not asking too much is it?
Thanks

[Jason W]

emelfm and emelfm2 provide that functionality.  But there is also room for an xarchiver extension, maybe it will be made as well.

[linus72]

Thank you-I didn't know emelfm had that capability!
I will check it out.

[Juanito]

One thing to be careful about is that when using emelfm to unpack a tarball (I didn't try with emelfm2), the date/time stamp of all the files/folders in the tarball is set to the present date/time.

This is not usually a problem, but some things (eg compiling automake, installing grub) seem to be sensitive to the date/time remaining as per the date/time you would get when unpacking the tarball manually with "tar xzf..."

[linus72]

Again thanks alot!