Bug 865690

Summary:	No application to open gz files
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 13.1	Reporter:	Forgotten User SpTvqxsYZX <forgotten_SpTvqxsYZX>
Component:	Basesystem	Assignee:	Forgotten User sM9JzehKpy <forgotten_sM9JzehKpy>
Status:	RESOLVED NORESPONSE	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	forgotten_L9LYSNS5sV, vcizek
Version:	Final	Flags:	forgotten_sM9JzehKpy: needinfo? (forgotten_L9LYSNS5sV)
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Description Forgotten User SpTvqxsYZX 2014-02-26 00:21:54 UTC

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:27.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/27.0

When attempting to open a .gz file, a window comes up asking There is no application installed that can open files of the type Gzip archive (application/gzip).
Do you want to try to install one?

After I click yes, I get: The software to install could not be found in the currently enabled software repositories.It may be located in other repositories.
See http://help.opensuse.org/ksuseinstall for details.
Do you want to configure your repositories

Given the popularity of gz files, it would seem that having an application or addon to ark to open gz files in the software repos would be mandatory.

Reproducible: Always

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Comment 1 Forgotten User L9LYSNS5sV 2014-02-26 03:02:35 UTC

I experienced this also. Ark has the capability to decompress .gz and KDE has the File Association set to Ark but the above message shows up. Clicking NO takes me directly to Ark. Clicking Yes runs through to failure then takes me to Ark.

I am receiving this error in Dolphin!


When attempting to open the same .gz compressed binary in Konqueror it reports that the file is a plain text file.

I validated my file associations 
Configure Desktop --> File Associations 

*.gz is only assigned to Ark and KCheckHash. I do not see any conflicts.

Comment 2 Forgotten User L9LYSNS5sV 2014-02-26 03:16:05 UTC

Right clicking on the file and selecting --> open with --> Ark, avoids the error as a whole as *.gz is an assigned file association.

The name of the file in question "linux-brprinter-installer-1.0.4-1.gz" should not be creating a file extension conflict or be recognized as a plain text file.

It looks like a defect in KDE File Associations.

I have the KDE-Services package from Fedora-20 hack installed so this does not validated on another system.

Comment 3 Vítězslav Čížek 2014-07-23 11:11:23 UTC

This is a KDE bug, reassigning to Raymond.

Comment 4 Forgotten User sM9JzehKpy 2014-07-23 12:48:47 UTC

So it seems that KSuseinstall does not recognize somehow that gz is a known extension with an association. 

Will check in the code of ksuseinstall if I can find anything there. If not, then worst case we would have an option to remove the full functionality of ksuseinstall or to turn this bug to a WONTFIX. Let's hope I find something :)

Comment 5 Forgotten User sM9JzehKpy 2014-07-23 12:57:18 UTC

Timothy, could you let me know which mimetype that particular archive has ?  It seems that ksuseinstall is looking at the mimetype of the file and if that mimetype is being handled or not. 

Thanks

Comment 6 Forgotten User sM9JzehKpy 2014-11-26 14:16:26 UTC

closing bug