As of two days later, there was still no answer there. This one said that folder was “in (peazip)/res/share/batch.” But where was that? As I would soon see, the situation was confusing enough to warrant posting a question at Ask Ubuntu. A search (using find / -type d “FreeDesktop_integration”) found nothing. So I set forth on a safari to hunt it down.Ī Google search led me to another PeaZip page. To “integrate PeaZip with the desktop environment” – specifically, to add PeaZip options to the Ubuntu context menu – PeaZip’s FAQs said I could find “simple instructions” in the “FreeDesktop_integration folder.” They didn’t say where that folder was. That way, the PeaZip icon would always be easy to access. I right-clicked on its icon in the dock (i.e., Ubuntu’s version of a taskbar) > Add to Favorites (i.e., Ubuntu’s version of Pin to Taskbar). That returned me to my desktop – and then, a moment later, it popped up PeaZip’s GUI, which amounted to a kind of file browser. With PeaZip installed, I went into Show Applications (i.e., the icon consisting of a matrix of nine dots, behind which Ubuntu hid my installed software) > mouse scroll > PeaZip. You were lucky to just get an understated invitation to reinstall or uninstall, implying that at least your attempt didn’t fail miserably. It doesn’t pay to give people too much encouragement. deb files, typically didn’t end with a user-friendly “Congratulations!” or “Installation complete” or anything like that. The gdebi installation process for PeaZip’s. As I recalled, GDebi was not included with Ubuntu by default I had to add it via sudo apt update and then sudo apt full-upgrade (my preferred upgrade command) and finally sudo apt install gdebi. When that download arrived in my Downloads folder (i.e., ~/Downloads), I right-clicked on it and chose Open with Other Application > GDebi Package Installer. MakeUseOf (King, 2019) explained that GTK+ was dominant – used by, among others, Ubuntu’s default GNOME desktop – while the primary Qt-based desktop these days was KDE Plasma. The PeaZip webpage said, “PeaZip Portable file archiver … does not modify your system.” That sounded like confirmation that it would not be installing any context menu options.įor Ubuntu, the download page offered Qt5 and GTK2 installers. This also seemed to be the situation in Linux. In Windows, that tended to mean installing rather than using a portable. I wanted to have right-click (i.e., context menu) capability. The download page offered installers as well as portable options. This post describes my project of installing it. PeaZip appeared to be the best game in town. I wanted an archiver that would do for me, in Linux, more or less what WinRAR did for me in Windows.
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