open up of compressed filetypes should request to install proper extractor

Bug #487937 reported by cornbread
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Nautilus
Unknown
Unknown
One Hundred Papercuts
Confirmed
Undecided
Unassigned
nautilus (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Wishlist
Unassigned

Bug Description

when opening up a rar, tar.lzma etc you will get an error currently.

ubuntu should recognize it needs unrar and 7zip and prompt you to install similar to codec installation.

Changed in ubuntu:
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in hundredpapercuts:
status: New → Confirmed
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Sense Egbert Hofstede (sense) wrote :

Thank you for helping with making Ubuntu better by reporting this. I'm setting the status to Triaged since it has been triaged and reported upstream. It is a Wishlist since it requests the addition of a new feature.

affects: ubuntu → nautilus (Ubuntu)
Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
status: Confirmed → Triaged
Revision history for this message
Sense Egbert Hofstede (sense) wrote :

It appears this bug is a duplicate of bug #148084, therefore I'm marking it as such. Please follow the conversation in the master bug report from now on. Thanks!

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