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Re: [LUG] Using ARK



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On Thursday 27 March 2003 9:07 am, LUG wrote:
> Dear All
>
> I am sorry I won't be at the meeting but I do hope you all enjoy it.
> Have been off air as I have rebuilt my computer - now running Athlon
> 700 with 256 ram and 20 gig HD. I like it!!!
>
> However, as I came to rebuild Mandrake 9 I have discovered that some
> programmes don't perform right.
>
> One of these is ARK. On trying to open 'zip' files it comes up with an
> error message:
>
> The utility zip is not in your path....
>
> What does this mean and how do I fix it please. Thanks.
>
> Rich

In common with a great many Linux GUI apps, Ark does not actually compress 
or uncompress any files, it just acts as a nice user interface for the 
job and passes the donkey work to command line apps.  In this case it is 
looking for a program called "zip" (and probably its partner "unzip") to 
handle pkzip style compressed archives.  This programme does not appear 
to be on your system - check your installation cds.

Tony
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