Bug 344745

Summary: zip-archives are incompatible
Product: [Applications] ark Reporter: Carioca <h6zb8-kdebugs20120801>
Component: generalAssignee: Raphael Kubo da Costa <rakuco>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: grave CC: 7achoneus
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 2.19   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Kubuntu   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments: invalid zip-file created by Ark

Description Carioca 2015-03-02 13:03:34 UTC
Neither Windows nor 7-Zip nor unzip (terminal) can read zip-archives from ark. Error-message is that it is not an archive or the archie is brocken.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
obvious

Actual Results:  
obvious

Expected Results:  
obvious
Comment 1 Raphael Kubo da Costa 2015-03-02 13:13:16 UTC
Please attach some archive created with Ark that presents this problem.
Comment 2 Carioca 2015-03-03 06:56:51 UTC
Created attachment 91386 [details]
invalid zip-file created by Ark

This is the output of the command unzip:

  “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-archive.zip or
        test-archive.zip.zip, and cannot find test-archive.zip.ZIP, period.”

I think everybody can test it by creating a zip file with Ark and try to open it in the terminal or on MS Windows (Ark can open it).
Comment 3 Christoph Feck 2015-03-07 18:50:32 UTC
*** Bug 344923 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Raphael Kubo da Costa 2015-03-22 23:13:33 UTC
This is a Kubuntu problem, as described in bug 340456 -- they have incorporated a patch from Debian to move to libarchive for handling zip files, but stuck with an older, broken version of the patch that does not handle archive creation correctly.

Please contact the Kubuntu packagers, there's even an open bug report about this (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kde-baseapps/+bug/1387924).

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 340456 ***