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Ali Razmdideh
Asked: 2018-09-05 05:21:54 +0800 CST

How do I make nautilus use file-roller in Ubuntu 18.04 and above like in 17.04?

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New nautilus is not using file-roller any more by default, it has switched to its native expression, but I want to use file-roller on right click.

I found this answer, which worked in Ubuntu 17.10. But nautilus-actions package is not yet Ubuntu 18.04's official repositories.

So is there any other method for this purpose?

nautilus archive compression file-roller 18.04

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Ubuntu 18.04+ method:

    Since nautilus-actions package is not yet in Ubuntu 18.04's official repositories, it's better to use nautilus script instead of nautilus-actions, which doesn't require any additional installation like for nautilus-actions.

    You can do it easily by below commands:

    echo file-roller -d \$@ > ~/.local/share/nautilus/scripts/File-Roller
chmod +x ~/.local/share/nautilus/scripts/File-Roller

    After that you can see File-Roller option in right click Scripts menu.

    File-Roller

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  2. As NOrbert said, filemanager-actions is packaged in ppa:daniel-marynicz/filemanager-actions PPA .

    You can install them as usual:

    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:daniel-marynicz/filemanager-actions
sudo apt-get install filemanager-actions-nautilus-extension # Nautilus
sudo apt-get install filemanager-actions-caja-extension # Caja
sudo apt-get install filemanager-actions-nemo-extension # Nemo
sudo apt-get install filemanager-actions* # simply all filemanagers

echo file-roller -d \$@ > ~/.local/share/nautilus/scripts/File-Roller
chmod +x ~/.local/share/nautilus/scripts/File-Roller
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