Open/unpack the file on Linux

[sakkamade]

Good day.

Thank you for amazing extension. This one, unlike SingleFile, appears to be precisely what I am looking for.
And yet, the issue came upon me the the very minute I installed it: I can't unpack it.

The application I am using is Ark which itself depends upon: p7zip library (for 7Z format), unrar library (for RAR decompression support), unarchiver (for RAR format support) and some other libraries, however I have also tired the program xarchiver, which has support of some additional libraries.
And I can positively confirm that with each and every of the zip-libraries installed, I am unable to unzip, nor to even open, the generated .html archive as long as I left option "create self extracting archives" enabled. When I disable it, I am able to plainly open and unpack the archive.

Yes, I have no knowledge upon archives structure, most likely the issue is not a concern of the SingleFIleZ itself, and I will undoubtedly proceed searching for the way to make it work, still, if I discover the way to open the file, I name it here, and this would certainly help others in future, otherwise, supposing someone is already learned the way, they may help me at present.

[gildas-lormeau]

You should be able to unzip self-extracting archives with the unzip command.

[sakkamade]

Yeah.

[sakkamade]

Thank you!

[sakkamade]

Well, spending some more time on search, now, I found no duly GUI solution still. However, there is a p7zip-gui, and one might give it a try (I didn't).

One way could have been to create a .desktop file with Exec=unzip %U -d *exdir*, however the %N (in place for *exdir*) was deprecated, although I am not sure if that would've worked, too.
The only choice is to enable "create a root directory" in the extension's settings, then the command in .desktop file will simply be Exec=unzip %U.

One may try to come up with something similar by unp or atool (I have read nothing of them).
Alternatively, simply running a command unzip file[.zip] -d [exdir] should do it.

Hence, the question is still open to solutions; though, at this point, I shall just create a bash script which will be called to by a .desktop file.

Curious matter is that the xarchive availing itself of an unzip package and fails to open the archive all the same.
None the less, I won't go in depths so to learn why.

[sakkamade]

Here is some GUI-ish way (zenity is required):

[Desktop Entry]
Comment=Extract the zip-HTML file to specific location
Exec=unzip -n %f -d "$(zenity --file-selection --directory)"/%n-unzipped
Icon=archive
MimeType=text/html;
Name=Unzip HTML
Path=
StartupNotify=true
Terminal=false
Categories=Utilities;

This will extract the archive into the "filename.html-unzipped" directory of the specified location, and will never overwrite existing files (although some files may still be extracted).

[sakkamade]

however the %N (in place for *exdir*) was deprecated,

Ha! Although deprecated, it is not removed yet. So this works too:

Exec=unzip -n %U -d "$(zenity --file-selection --directory)"/%N-unzipped

(will update above as well)

[sakkamade]

Also, simply this will unpack the file to the same location as archive, into a sub-folder:

Exec=unzip -n %f -d %n-unzipped

[gildas-lormeau]

I forgot to mention that you can also simply disable the option ZIP content > create self extracting archives if you don't need this feature. Thus, SingleFileZ will produce zip files compatible with any unzip tool.