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I've been quite happy with the onboard Archive Manager, but I started looking for one that has the option of a single-click interface, to save my wrists a little work.


I didn't find one (suggestions are welcome), but in the search I did come across PeaZip, which has a nicer interface and a lot more options than the default AM.


The only thing lacking, from my perspective, beside single-click action, is shell integration. Some ways to do this are given - copying a desktop shortcut to the sbin folder, or copying scripts to the usr/local/share folder, but these have not worked for me. The prog is portable, yet it uses a .deb installer package, which I don't understand.


Here's an excerpt from its FreeDesktop folder:

Quote:With following instructions you can easily integrate PeaZip with Gnome and KDE:


1) Install a PeaZip installable package (DEB, RPM, TGZ), or extract PeaZip portable to the desired path and link peazip binary in one of the system's binary folder i.e. /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin, or /usr/local/bin (recommended)


2a) Gnome
- Nautilus scripts
Manually copy 'Archiving' folder, which is contained in 'nautilus-scripts', to your user's profile '.gnome2/nautilus-scripts' folder; that folder is hidden, so you can either find it flagging 'View>Show hidden files' in Nautilus, or clicking on 'Scripts>Open scripts folder' in Gnome's context menu.
This integration is NOT automatically performed by PeaZip installer, because nautilus-scripts path location is currently not widely standardized.
- .desktop files
Copy peazip.desktop files in /usr/share/applications
NOTE Gnome is often configured to use /usr/share/application and /usr/share/icons paths (i.e. on Ubuntu), but the paths may be different on some distribution or in some specific installations.
This integration is automatically performed by the installer.

Does anyone know a way to do this? Thanks.

I use Peazip and as far as I can remember I just installed it from a .deb file - you just double click on the downloaded file using the default file manager - and once it is installed you can right click on a zip or other archive file and choose properties, the ability to assign the file type to PeaZip should be on the General tab.


Hope this helps...

Thanks mandoran. Yes, default file associations are no problem. PeaZip actually took them over automatically upon "installation", which while I have no problem with in this case, is not right for a "portable" file.

What I'm looking to do here is have PeaZip actions in the context menu.