Just did a fresh install last weekend for a family member. Used the ISO off the website. Ran into an odd issue, tried to open some .7z files and Ark said it was unsupported. Did some digging and found that p7zip was not installed. Installed that and now it works. Wasn't this installed by default in the past? Or am I possibly just mis-remembering?

Also on this install the right click "extract here" context menu isn't there.

Both installs are the Plasma version. Both are fully up to date and passed a eopkg check (please don't ever remove this feature!)

  • To my knowledge it is not currently nor has it ever been part of the default install.

    So unless I am mistaken you must have installed it yourself either directly or indirectly, i.e these applications depend on it.

    Reverse Dependencies: cherrytree multibootusb mcomix playonlinux qnapi conky-manager

Clarification, there's no right click context menu for .7z. There are for .zip and such.

If I recall correctly, p7zip was not installed by default in previous versions of Solus, but I might be wrong.

More strange to me is the fact that you didn't have the "extract here" option. I had it by default, no need to add it. Solus Plasma 4.4 ISO.

    In my Gnome 4.5 is installed. I've just see now in Software Center. I've never install it.

    Solus is a rolling distribution, and normal updates have taken it far enough towards 4.5 that some of the naming is already visible. When 4.5. is actually finished and released, it will be obvious on the main Solus site, and the download page will include the new Xfce edition (and no more MATE).

    joluveba I have it for the other formats, but not the .7z. Have not rebooted though since installing p7zip, so that might fix it.

    I do not recall ever having to install p7zip on any previous installs. I am old, I do forget things, so it is entirely possible that it simply happened so long ago I don't remember having done it.

      To my knowledge it is not currently nor has it ever been part of the default install.

      So unless I am mistaken you must have installed it yourself either directly or indirectly, i.e these applications depend on it.

      Reverse Dependencies: cherrytree multibootusb mcomix playonlinux qnapi conky-manager

        Probably I've installed it indirectly.

        Harvey Yep. That's it, I installed playonlinux on all of the previous installs but not on this one. Makes perfect sense now. Thank you!