Integration of archives navigation in nautilus

Question

Would there be a tool to integrate the navigation in the content of an archive in Nautilus, instead of using Archive Manager?

Answer 1

This won't let you open archives seamlessly within the same instance of nautilus, but will allow you to open a zip file in a second, new instance of nautilus via a script (to be placed in ~/.local/share/nautilus/scripts and made executable).

#!/bin/bash

# see: https://askubuntu.com/a/295312/480880
urlencode() {
    # urlencode <string>
    local length="${#1}"
    for (( i = 0; i < length; i++ )); do
        local c="${1:i:1}"
        case $c in
            [a-zA-Z0-9.~_-]) printf "$c" ;;
            *) printf '%%%02X' "'$c"
        esac
    done
}

# taken from xdg-mime;
# xdg-mime itself is not used, as it's slow and we're already assuming presence of gvfs utils anyway
mime_type() {
    gvfs-info "$1" 2> /dev/null | grep standard::content-type | cut -d' ' -f4
}

echo "$NAUTILUS_SCRIPT_SELECTED_URIS" | while read uri
do
    mime_type="$(mime_type "$uri" )"
    if [ "$mime_type" = "application/zip" ] # add mime-types as necessary
    then
    archive_path="archive://$(urlencode "$uri" )"
    gvfs-mount "$archive_path"
    gvfs_path="$( echo "$archive_path" | sed 's/%/%25/g')" # yes, the percentage signs are encoded, again!
    # zenity --entry --entry-text="$gvfs_path"
    nautilus "$gvfs_path"
    fi
done

Answer 2

I advise you to use Ark

It manages various archive formats, including tar, gzip, bzip2, rar and zip, as well as CD-ROM images. Ark can be used to browse, extract, create, and modify archives. This package is part of the KDE SC utilities module.

sudo apt-get install ark

Another good option is Xarchiver

It is a lightweight desktop independent GTK+ frontend for manipulating 7z, arj, bzip2, gzip, rar, tar, zip, rpm and deb files. It allows you to create archives and add, extract, and delete files from them. Password protected archives in the arj, 7z, rar and zip formats are supported.

sudo apt-get install xarchiver