Re: what archive support packages are required to be installed in an rpm distro for mc to navigate .debs as it can with .rpms?

Does your version of tar (which is being called under the hood) support the zstd format?
I think support for it was added in tar-1.31 - maybe openSUSE has on older version.

  $ tar --help | grep zstd
      --zstd                 filter the archive through zstd

In case you can't or don't want to upgrade to a more recent version for whatever reason, you might
try fiddling with tar's --use-compress-program option, e.g. by writing a wrapper which adds
--use-compress-program=zstd to the list of args tar is being called with if the tarball's name ends
in .tar.zst (and making sure the wrapper is being found before the regular tar program...)

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Subject: Re: [mc] what archive support packages are required to be installed in an rpm distro for mc to navigate .debs as it can with .rpms?

Does your version of tar (which is being called under the hood) support the zstd format?
I think support for it was added in tar-1.31 - maybe openSUSE has on older version.

  $ tar --help | grep zstd
      --zstd                 filter the archive through zstd

In case you can't or don't want to upgrade to a more recent version for whatever reason, you might
try fiddling with tar's --use-compress-program option, e.g. by writing a wrapper which adds
--use-compress-program=zstd to the list of args tar is being called with if the tarball's name ends
in .tar.zst (and making sure the wrapper is being found before the regular tar program...)

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Subject: [mc] what archive support packages are required to be installed in an rpm distro for mc to navigate .debs as it can with .rpms?

What archive support packages are required to be installed in an rpm distro for mc
to navigate (ubuntu 22.04) .debs as it can with .rpms? My Google-fu isn't doing
very well with this. As it stands, trying to navigate with mc produces:

        ...deb' uses unknown compression for member 'control.tar.zst', giving up

Installed here in openSUSE:
# zypper se -si arc zip zstd dpkg apt zma xz | grep 6_6
i+ | bzip2          | package | 1.0.8-150400.1.122    | x86_64 | OSS
i+ | dpkg           | package | 1.19.0.4-150000.4.4.1 | x86_64 | OSS
i  | gzip           | package | 1.10-150200.10.1      | x86_64 | OSS
i  | libarchive13   | package | 3.5.1-150400.3.12.1   | x86_64 | OSS
i  | libKF5Archive5 | package | 5.103.0-150500.1.3    | x86_64 | OSS
i  | liblzma5       | package | 5.2.3-150000.4.7.1    | x86_64 | OSS
i+ | libzip-tools   | package | 1.8.0-150400.1.7      | x86_64 | OSS
i  | libzip5        | package | 1.8.0-150400.1.7      | x86_64 | OSS
i  | libzstd1       | package | 1.5.0-150400.3.3.1    | x86_64 | OSS
i  | unzip          | package | 6.00-150000.4.11.1    | x86_64 | OSS
i  | xz             | package | 5.2.3-150000.4.7.1    | x86_64 | OSS
i+ | zip            | package | 3.0-2.22              | x86_64 | OSS
i  | zstd           | package | 1.5.0-150400.3.3.1    | x86_64 | OSS
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What else is needed?
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