Nautilus – How to Use File-Roller in Ubuntu 17.10 Like 17.04

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In Ubuntu 17.10 ubuntu upgraded Nautilus (File Browser) to version 3.26.0. New nautilus is not using file-roller anymore, it has switched to an integrated compression mechanism.

New mechanism

This makes it complicated to create encrypted archives and/or different types compression archives that file-roller does provide.

How to make nautilus use file-roller as before?

Related question: How to get more options in File-Roller?

Best Answer

Install nautilus-actions: 

sudo apt install nautilus-actions
  • Context Label: Compress with FR
  • Create new action; path: file-roller
  • Parameters: -d %F
  • Working diretory: %d

For installing nautilus-actions in 18.04, see Nautilus-actions in 18.04.

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