Can anyone point me in the direction of a good GUI Zip program?
Peppermint 2,
Thanks
Yes I can!
Hello Toonman, it’s Toonman here. Yes the one who usually replies to your stupid requests!
remember this http://linuxforums.org.uk/index.php?topic=4082.msg29142#msg29142 :-[ :-[ :-[ :-[ :-[ :-[
Idiot. 
BTW, Pea zip works with Peppermint2.
Heh … answering your own questions again eh 
The default archive manager “File Roller”, can also handle zip files … just make sure you have the zip and unzip packages installed (which I think they are by default).
I do however think it odd that the Archive Manager isn’t in the menu by default in Peppermint … to add it:-
sudo gedit /usr/share/applications/file-roller.desktop
find the line that reads:
NoDisplay=true
and change it to:
NoDisplay=false
SAVE the file … you’ll now find it in the menu > Accessories > Archive Manager
Just tried that Mark, I got this.
(gedit:5324): Gtk-WARNING **: Attempting to store changes into `/root/.local/share/recently-used.xbel’, but failed: Failed to create file ‘/root/.local/share/recently-used.xbel.SNCJDW’: No such file or directory
(gedit:5324): Gtk-WARNING **: Attempting to set the permissions of `/root/.local/share/recently-used.xbel’, but failed: No such file or directory
You can safley ignore those warnings, but if you’d rather not see them again, just create a directory at that location:
sudo mkdir -p /root/.local/share
You should also be able to just right-click any file or folder, and select “Compress” … then select .zip as the archive type.
(which is probably why they didn’t feel the need to add it to the menu, but I still like it there)
On the off chance that .zip and/or .rar and/or .7zip aren’t available as options:
sudo apt-get install zip unzip rar unrar p7zip-full
they will be now
Sorted.
Thanks Mark.
LOL, youre crazy Toon… :o
Does Pepermint have 7Zip? I use that on Ubuntu (used to use it in Window$ too)
Was that rhetorical … if not, see the second command in my last posting.
Many apologies I missed that one.
Once p7zip-full is installed … the default archive manager will be able to pack/unpack .7zip archives.
Though a quick test I did a while ago seems to suggest .tar.gz compresses just as much, and is faster.