[ SOLVED ] Lost Default Archive Manager

[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

[Jerry]

What is the output of:

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apt policy thunar-archive-plugin thunar file-roller

[bitsnpcs]

Hello Daveyboy,

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

[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