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Ark is installed but there is no option to create an archive in the file manager's context menu.

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There is a /usr/share/kservices5/ServiceMenus/ark_servicemenu.desktop.

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    installing ark does the trick
    – user115639
    May 26, 2016 at 23:53

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I was missing 'extract' and 'compress' in Dolphin under Ubuntu 16.04 (not Kubuntu!) and fixed it by installing Ark:

sudo apt-get install ark
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    Just used the same fix on Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS Jan 7, 2019 at 13:33
  • This is the solution on Zorin OS 16 Lite. Thank you Dec 30, 2021 at 23:12
  • This worked on Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS too!
    – digikar
    Aug 7, 2023 at 4:02
  • Works in PopOS 22.04 as well.
    – MarcoZen
    Oct 20, 2023 at 21:35
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As I anticipated this is related to the "hybrid" state of the present Plasma 5.

Not only upgrade from a KDE4 system to Plasma 5 may disable some features, as presented in this question, but installing directly a Plasma 5 system like Kubuntu 15.04 or 15.10 may include similar problems

(as indicated here:

There are KDE4 applications and there are new KF5 applications.The KDE4 parts are looking the service menus from:

~/.kde/share/kde4/services/ServiceMenus/ and /usr/share/kde4/services/ServiceMenus/

The new KF5 service menus are at:

~/.local/share/kservices5/ServiceMenus/ and /usr/share/kservices5/ServiceMenus/*

)

But the solution for 15.10 (here and here) is different from the one for 15.04.

I used the second solution for 15.10, running this command:

sudo ln /usr/share/kde4/servicetypes/konqpopupmenuplugin.desktop /usr/share/kservicetypes5/konqpopupmenuplugin.desktop 
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