Bug 374286

Summary:	Zip archive created with Ark is not zip, but gzip -> unusable under Windows etc.
Product:	[Applications] ark	Reporter:	Richard Rasker <rasker>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Elvis Angelaccio <elvis.angelaccio>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	grave	CC:	rthomsen6
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	2.19
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Mint (Ubuntu based)
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments:	Sample zip file from Ark containing gzip format archive instead of zip

Description Richard Rasker 2016-12-29 12:34:33 UTC

Created attachment 103058 [details]
Sample zip file from Ark containing gzip format archive instead of zip

[Ark 2.19, KDE 4.14.2 on Linux Mint 17.3, Dutch locale]
Reproduce:
- Start Ark
- New -> Save as -> e.g. test.zip -> Save
- Add File -> select files -> Open
- Close Ark

Check from the command line:

~ > file test.zip
test.zip: gzip compressed data, from Unix, last modified: Thu Dec 29 13:19:53 2016
(also see attachment)

Identical result from Dolphin context menu:
- Start Dolphin
- Select one or more files
- Right-click on files -> Compress -> As ZIP archive

Using zip from the command line does result in a correct zip file.

The result from Ark is not a normal zip file, and Windows users can't open it. This is a major problem for users who are not familiar with using zip from the command line.

Note: this appears to be the same bug as #333835 https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=333835 from 2014, but it is not (yet?) resolved in Mint 17.3 AFAICT

Comment 1 Elvis Angelaccio 2016-12-29 13:28:25 UTC

Sorry, but there is nothing that we can do. Please get in touch with the Mint developers and ask them to fix this bug in their ark package: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ark/+bug/1388532

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

Comment 2 Richard Rasker 2016-12-29 17:26:11 UTC

OK, I will do that.

Thanks for the fast reply!