Neon dev unstable here... Ark does not open/extract the rar file from the link below. http://www.mediafire.com/file/hmosbw9wvnek4jg/extraction_fails.rar Ark says "Loading the archive /home/username/extraction_fails.rar failed with the following error: No suitable plugin found. Ark does not seem to support this file type." And 'Extract..." is missing from dolphin context menu when I do right-click on the file. I can open/extract this same file on windows 7 using bandizip. Ark opens/extracts other rar files without any problem on my neon.
Works fine here. Please start ark from a terminal using: QT_LOGGING_RULES='ark.*.debug=true' ark and attach here the output.
Created attachment 108142 [details] debug ark
Comment on attachment 108142 [details] debug ark >rk.main: Entering application loop >ark.part: Attempting to open archive "/home/stalker/extraction_fails.rar" >ark.kerfuffle: Going to create archive "/home/stalker/extraction_fails.rar" >ark.kerfuffle: Mimetype for filename extension ( "application/x-rar" ) did not match mimetype for content ( "application/pdf" ). Using content-based mimetype. That's the bug. This was fixed in shared-mime-info, but I guess the version in Neon/Ubuntu 16.04 is too old. There is nothing we can do, either try to ask the Neon people to update shared-mime-info, or unpack the archive using unar/unrar from terminal.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 357134 ***