Description of problem: Today I tried to open a 7z file with file-roller. It warned me that the 'Archive type not supported'. I turned to google to see what linux tools could open a 7z file. Wikipedia told me that file-roller could indeed handle it. Puzzled, I thought hmm maybe I'm missing something. I did a "yum search 7zip" and I noticed there was a package called exactly 7zip so I installed it. I tried to reopen the 7z file in file-roller and it worked. Great! But, why couldn't the fedora desktop prompt me that i'm missing 7zip support and ask me if I want to install it? This sounds a whole lot like Codec Buddy but for compression formats. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): $ rpm -q file-roller file-roller-2.20.3-1.fc8 How reproducible: Very. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Download a .7z file 2. `yum remove 7zip` (just in case you already have it installed somehow) 3. Try to open the .7z file in file-roller Actual results: "Achive type not supported". Duh. Expected results: "Achive type 7zip not supported. Install neccessary packages? Yes/No" Additional info:
Sorry, `yum remove 7zip` should have read p7zip
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Created attachment 387097 [details] sample .7z file Opening with file-roller to receive error message "Archive type not supported."
Could Package-Kit be used to prompt user to download missing archive type support?
Upstream bug report https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=482560 According to gnome 2.30 release notes this is fixed: "File Roller will install the necessary packages using PackageKit if an archive you are trying to open does not have the correct archive support installed."