Opening tar.gz files with tar ioslave

Martijn van der Kwast mvdkwast at gmx.net
Thu Aug 3 15:26:36 BST 2006


Probably you've solved this problem already. Anyway:

This describes the solution:
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=207385

basically,
sudo rm -r 
/usr/share/kubuntu-default-settings/kde-profile/default/share/mimelnk/application/

C'ya
Martijn van der Kwast

Ainsley Pereira wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have 2 different systems, each running KDE. One is compiled from
> source, the other a kubuntu dapper install. On the kubuntu system, if I
> click on a tar.gz file in konqueror, it opens in a new ark window,
> whereas on my other machine, it browses right into it as if it were just
> another directory, using the tar:/file URL.
>
> I've looked at all the configuration for the application/x-tgz mimetype,
> but I can't see how to make the kubuntu system use the tar ioslave like
> my other system does. I can manually enter the tar: URL, and that works,
> but I'd like it to just work like it does on the other machine.
>
> This same behaviour seems to occur at least with 3.5.2 and 3.5.3.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Ainsley
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