Missing nemo right-click "extract/compress files"

Solution 1:

Very simply, all you should need to do is install the nemo-fileroller package:

sudo apt-get install nemo-fileroller

To apply the changes quit the file-manager with

nemo -q

to then (re-)start it like you normally would.

Solution 2:

Okay, I've tried lots of "solutions" but none of them work, so I went and dug out how things work, and here's how I did it on Ubuntu 14.04 and Nemo 2.2.2...

1. Open up terminal and type cd ~/.local/share/nemo/actions/
2. Create a new file/action for Compress by typing nano compress.nemo_action

3. Paste this contents into newly created file

   [Nemo Action]
   Active=true
   Name=Compress...
   Comment=compress %N
   Exec=file-roller -d %F
   Icon-Name=gnome-mime-application-x-compress
   Selection=Any
   Extensions=any;
   

4. Save the file and exit (CTRL+X, and just Enter)

5. Create a new file/action for "Extract here" by typing nano extracthere.nemo_action

6. Paste this contents into newly created file

   [Nemo Action]
   Active=true
   Name=Extract here
   Comment=Extract here
   Exec=file-roller -h %F
   Icon-Name=gnome-mime-application-x-compress
    #Stock-Id=gtk-cdrom
   Selection=Any
   Extensions=zip;7z;ar;cbz;cpio;exe;iso;jar;tar;tar;7z;tar.Z;tar.bz2;tar.gz;tar.lz;tar.lzma;tar.xz;
   

7. Save the file and exit (CTRL+X, and just Enter)

8. You're done. If you still don't have Compress/Extract here options in Nemo, just restart or log out/in.

Creating Nemo actions is the only way I've achieved this, I've tried several repos and tutorial of which none worked.

Solution 3:

To improve the Compress/Extract integration, I'm posting an Escape-Safe way (because folders with spaces in the name was crashing my file-roller):

Create the following .nemo_action files and their contents, at /usr/share/nemo/actions:

compress.nemo_action:

[Nemo Action]
Active=true
Name=Compress...
Comment=Compress "%f"
Exec=file-roller --add %F --default-dir=%P
Icon-Name=gnome-mime-application-x-compress
Selection=notnone
Extensions=any;
Quote=double

extract-here.nemo_action:

[Nemo Action]
Active=true
Name=Extract here
Comment=Extract "%f" here
Exec=file-roller --extract-here %F
Icon-Name=gnome-mime-application-x-compress
Selection=notnone
Extensions=zip;7z;ar;cbz;cpio;exe;iso;jar;tar;tar.Z;tar.bz2;tar.gz;tar.lz;tar.lzma;tar.xz;
Quote=double

extract-to.nemo_action:

[Nemo Action]
Active=true
Name=Extract to...
Comment=Extract to a folder of your choice.
Exec=file-roller --extract %F
Icon-Name=gnome-mime-application-x-compress
Selection=notnone
Extensions=zip;7z;ar;cbz;cpio;exe;iso;jar;tar;tar.Z;tar.bz2;tar.gz;tar.lz;tar.lzma;tar.xz;
Quote=double

Solution 4:

I believe the above nemo actions is missing the "Quote=double" parameter otherwise files/directories that have space(s) in their name won't work. e.g.

[Nemo Action]
Active=true
Name=Compress...
Comment=compress %N
Exec=file-roller -d %F
Icon-Name=gnome-mime-application-x-compress
Selection=any
Extensions=any;
Quote=double

Also useful is an "Extract to..." action, which allows you to select a different path where you may want to extract the files to.

e.g.
extractto.nemo_action

[Nemo Action]
Active=true
Name=Extract to...
Comment=Extract to...
Exec=file-roller -f %F
Icon-Name=gnome-mime-application-x-compress
#Stock-Id=gtk-cdrom
Selection=any
Extensions=zip;7z;ar;cbz;cpio;exe;iso;jar;tar;tar;7z;tar.Z;tar.bz2;tar.gz;tar.lz;tar.lzma;tar.xz;
Quote=double