Re: Archive app

This is a long-standing issue in ROX-Lib. The call to ROX-Filer isn't
needed on modern systems.

However, it doesn't do any harm. If you're off-line (and therefore can't
check for updates) just put it in off-line mode:

0install --gui
Preferences
Network use
Offline
On Oct 3, 2012 4:45 PM, "Jim Lesurf" <[email protected]> wrote:

> In article <[email protected]>, Stephen
> Watson <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Jim Lesurf <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > >
> > > So where/how do I find a simple tar file of the Archive rox-app that
> > > will work without trying to use zero-install?
>
> > Try:
> >
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/rox/files/Archive/2.2/archive-2.2.tar.bz2/download
>
> Just tried that. Problem as before.
>
> When I use it to generate a tar it produces the archive OK. But then
> launches zero install and tries to download ROX Filer 2.11. I'm already
> using ROX-Filer. Does this whenever I DnD a directory to create an archive.
>
> When I use it to extract items *from* an archive it works OK, and it
> *doesn't* launch a zero install attempt to do anything.
>
> This is on a machine running Xubuntu 11.10 with the ROX Filer as supplied
> from the distro repositories. Works fine with other ROX apps. I have ROX
> Lib2.
>
> Is there a simple way to edit the app to block this love affair with zero
> install? I ask as I don't know much about python.
>
> Also, the other point I flagged is that I could not find a link to Archive
> from the obvious ROX pages. One place that looked like a link points,
> instead, to an archive of older versions of ROX-Filer. So I think a
> suitable link is broken/missing.
>
> Slainte,
>
> Jim
>
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