Bug 345717

Summary: Ark 2.19 doesn't ask for password for password protected zip
Product: [Applications] ark Reporter: Rocky Stone <rstone.mail>
Component: generalAssignee: Raphael Kubo da Costa <rakuco>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal CC: rstone.mail
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 2.19   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Rocky Stone 2015-03-31 08:31:59 UTC 
In Kubuuntu 15.04 beta2 and with Ark 2.19 when extracting password protected zip file it doesn't ask for a password.
Arks extracts the file with the about right size, but when I opened it with a Hex editor it showed that the file contains only zeros (0x00).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open a password protected zip file using Ark (either with left click in Dolphin or by opening Ark first) 
2. Click the Extract button and select destination directory then click OK

Actual Results:  
Ark doesn't ask for a password

Expected Results:  
Ark should ask for a password for password protected files

I see a couple of comments in https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35371 of users hitting the same issue, but since this was working in Kubuntu 14.04 I'm filing a new bug, since the original bug 35371 has been resolved.

Workaround: Use unzip from command line (Konsole)
Comment 1 Raphael Kubo da Costa 2015-05-31 18:05:15 UTC 
Unfortunately this is a problem with Kubuntu's packaging: they have a local patch to switch the backend used for zip files to libarchive, and I there's probably no code there to handle passwords. Please see the bug report this one is being marked a duplicate of for a Launchpad tracking bug.

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