unzip problems

Forum: Apps
Topic: unzip problems
started by: Zucca

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Posted by Zucca on Sep. 27 2006,17:18

Okay. This is propably solved right away if someone can tell me if there's a dsl extension for unzip program.

Anyway. I noticed that unzip program is 'merged' to buzybox.
I read the man page for it and tried to unzip my archive. Failed.
Ok. Then I did this to investigate:

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$ unzip -l mboard122.zip Archive:  mboard122.zip  Length     Date   Time    Name --------    ----   ----    ----     3822  09-04-04 19:53   badwords/en.php unzip: Unsupported compression method 0

It shows that it cannot 'unzip' zip archives that have compression level 0 (no zipping at all, just archiving). Seems strange to me. =D I thought it would be THE easiest job even to an old zip program to unzip an achive that has no compression.

So. What's wrong?

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Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Sep. 27 2006,20:44

There's different zip standards afaik - I personally like p7zip because it pratically handles everything to do with file compression, but the binaries are larger.

Of course you could try the standard unzip program too. (try from apt?)

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Posted by Zucca on Sep. 28 2006,14:02

I did

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sudo apt-get install unzip

and it worked.
Actually it's almost the same as in buzybox. Same options and so on...

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Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Sep. 28 2006,15:01

Quote (Zucca @ Sep. 28 2006,10:02)

Actually it's almost the same as in buzybox. Same options and so on...

Well yes, busybox was meant to be a small replacement;
see < http://www.busybox.net/about.html >

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Posted by roberts on Sep. 28 2006,18:03

Also loading gnu-utils.dsl or gnu-utils.unc provides the full version.

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Posted by Zucca on Sep. 28 2006,18:09

Oh thanks.
So basically it replaces Busybox with seperate binaries?

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