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mc unzip problem on ubuntu karmic

November 25th, 2009 Leave a comment Go to comments

Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) has a little issue with Midnight Commander – it does not browse into zipped files, and shows empty contents instead. After searching the web I found out that the problem can be solved by setting property “op_has_zipinfo” to “1″ in file “/usr/share/mc/extfs/uzip”. For the truly lazy people I prepared this little commandline fixing that (no need to open the editor):

sudo sed '/op_has_zipinfo/{s:0:1:}' /usr/share/mc/extfs/uzip >x && sudo chmod 755 x && sudo mv x /usr/share/mc/extfs/uzip

Enjoy!

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  • Andrzej Bialecki

    This was driving me crazy – after making the change the problem disappeared. Thanks a million!

  • http://libc6.blogspot.com libc6

    Very simple and elegant problem solving.
    I’ve reposted it to my blog with link to you. Thanks a lot.

  • Jabba

    Tanks a lot, this bug was very annoying…

  • hardyolbaum

    Can I translate this in my language and publish it on my website with your name? I’m french and some french has a really poor english. if this fix is in french I’m sure it could help many people.

  • http://blog.linux-squad.com/?p=34 Linux-squad, le squad linux » mc unzip problem on ubuntu karmic

    [...] Depuis le passage ã Ubuntu 9.10, j’étais confronté à un petit problème assez gênant. En effet, MC (Midnight Commander pour les intimes) ne savait plus explorer les archives zip. En fait il les ouvrait mais affichait un contenu vide.Finalement après quelques mois de recherches. J’ai trouvé la solution sur Petr Kozelka’s blog [...]

  • Petr Kozelka

    @hardyolbaum
    sure, I welcome that

  • J

    Thanks a lot. BTW: the one-liner seams to be too long for firefox to display…
    Thanks anyway

  • http://home.sljunkie.org/2010/03/mc-uzip-probleem-ubuntu-karmic/ SLjunkie » Blog Archive » mc uzip probleem ubuntu karmic

    [...] bestanden niet zien. Na een korte zoektocht op internet vond ik een oplossing voor dit probleem. Petr Kozelka heeft het probleem opglost door middel van een simpel scriptje. Je hoeft niet eens een editor te [...]

  • S. Wefel

    Thanks a lot …

  • pls

    thanks man, it helped me!)

  • http://www.mikestechblog.com Ubuntu Guy

    Thanks for this post. I was trying to figure out why it would not browse into zipped files. This took care of it.

  • Airfire

    Solved!

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