Bug 374286 - Zip archive created with Ark is not zip, but gzip -> unusable under Windows etc.
Summary: Zip archive created with Ark is not zip, but gzip -> unusable under Windows etc.
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 340456
Alias: None
Product: ark
Classification: Applications
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: 2.19
Platform: Mint (Ubuntu based) Linux
: NOR grave
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Elvis Angelaccio
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Reported: 2016-12-29 12:34 UTC by Richard Rasker
Modified: 2016-12-29 17:26 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Sample zip file from Ark containing gzip format archive instead of zip (5.98 KB, application/zip)
2016-12-29 12:34 UTC, Richard Rasker
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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!