daniewicz Posted January 2, 2005 Report Share Posted January 2, 2005 I have downloaded a 30+ MB tar.bz2 file that I wish to extract. I can go to the command line with tar xvjf package.tar.bz2 and extract the files without problem. If I instead choose to be Windows lazy and open package.tar.bz2 file in Konqueror and copy, the extraction takes FOREVER. Why is this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aru Posted January 2, 2005 Report Share Posted January 2, 2005 First I have to say that I don't use KDE. Said that, and AFAIK KDE uses ark instead of tar, so could be a bug/problem with ark? so try ark instead of tar in command line to see what happens. Also I'm pretty sure you could configure konqueror to use tar instead of ark if you wish. HTH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniewicz Posted January 3, 2005 Author Report Share Posted January 3, 2005 ark? Thats not fair, ark is not discussed in my O'Reilly Linux pocket guide. :D Time to google for ark and learn some more.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted January 3, 2005 Report Share Posted January 3, 2005 Nope its not in the 'penguin' guide but the seal guide :D ark ark... :D (p.s. did you try using ark?) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted January 3, 2005 Report Share Posted January 3, 2005 file-roller (gnome) takes longer than cli aren't these just gui wrappers using tar though? :unsure: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniewicz Posted January 4, 2005 Author Report Share Posted January 4, 2005 (p.s. did you try using ark?) Help me out here. Is there a command line to do this? Lots of googling is indicating that ark is part of KDE via the file-roller GUI?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted January 4, 2005 Report Share Posted January 4, 2005 Everything in Linux should have a CLI equivalent :D GUI's should just pass the CLI programe the right parameters.... I think man ark ... should give you the syntax :D ark ark ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aru Posted January 4, 2005 Report Share Posted January 4, 2005 man ark ... should give you the syntax :D no, it wont, but ark --help does the trick ark is a kde app, hence it doesn't have a man page ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniewicz Posted January 6, 2005 Author Report Share Posted January 6, 2005 Sorry I have been so slow to respond to you posts. I have been distracted by an effort to build firefox 1.0 from source. In fact, this build process is where I stumbled upon the extraction peculiarity. Aru: I am getting a "command not found" when I try ark with and without the help flag. I am using KDE 3.2. More detail: Extracting a small 1 MB bz2 file works equally fast whether I use tar from the CL or Konqueror. Extracting a large 30 MB bz2 file works using tar from the CL and takes several seconds. Using Konqueror, I waited 30 min for the extraction process to finish and gave up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aru Posted January 7, 2005 Report Share Posted January 7, 2005 (edited) Aru: I am getting a "command not found" when I try ark with and without the help flag. I am using KDE 3.2. Could that mean that it something with that package is broken? It's a good moment to try to reinstall the kdeutils-ark rpm package Edited January 7, 2005 by aru Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniewicz Posted January 7, 2005 Author Report Share Posted January 7, 2005 Ahh....It turns out kdeutils-ark wasn't even installed. I have installed it. Running from the command line to extract firefox-1.0-source.tar.bz2 I get: $ ark firefox-1.0-source.tar.bz2 QMetaObject::findSignal:FileListView: Conflict with QListView::doubleClicked(QListViewItem*,const QPoint&,int) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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