Ubuntu
file-roller package

can't install new software

Bug #424688 reported by tayzar on 2009-09-05

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #508120: every program i download,does never open or work always archive manager have a problem.i cant open my download programs. Edit Remove

This bug affects 2 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	file-roller (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Low	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: file-roller

hi,, i am trying to install new software.. the message show is as following" why?

[/home/tay/Desktop/setup.exe]
  End-of-central-directory signature not found. Either this file is not
  a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive. In the
  latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found on
  the last disk(s) of this archive.
note: /home/tay/Desktop/setup.exe may be a plain executable, not an archive
zipinfo: cannot find zipfile directory in one of /home/tay/Desktop/setup.exe or
          /home/tay/Desktop/setup.exe.zip, and cannot find /home/tay/Desktop/setup.exe.ZIP, period.

thanks

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/file-roller
Package: file-roller 2.26.1-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_SG.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: file-roller
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-15-generic i686

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tayzar (botay24) wrote on 2009-09-05:

Dependencies.txt Edit (3.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcMaps.txt Edit (22.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcStatus.txt Edit (773 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Noel J. Bergman (noeljb) wrote on 2009-09-05:

> /home/tay/Desktop/setup.exe

Is there some reason why you would expect an MS-Windows application installer to work on Linux?

Changed in file-roller (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Incomplete

Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) on 2009-09-11

Changed in file-roller (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Low

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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote on 2009-10-09:

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to New. Thanks again!.