Hi folks,

How can I specify compression ratio in ark?

PS
I know that peazip is a nice alternative to ark but it doesn't come with KDE repository (I prefer to get latest versions) and has stupid integration with Dolphin.

What are you trying to do exactly? Compression ratio cannot be set, it simply reflects the ability of the chosen algorithm to compress the data down. The higher the ratio, the greater the compression.

Do you really mean the amount of work it will do to try and get the best compression possible? ie. bzip -9 vs. bzip -2

bcooksley wrote:Do you really mean the amount of work it will do to try and get the best compression possible? ie. bzip -9 vs. bzip -2

Yes, I'm looking for best compression ratio (usually 7z, ZIP and RAR use from 1 to 9).

Can I specify it through ARK GUI?
PS
I really hate CLI.

look at q7z http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=45453 it creates a service menu under actions you have 3 options for compression: normal, max and ultra

peazip also (iirc) provides service menus for Dolphin and they provide .deb's on their site

if Kubuntu doesn't provided packages ask them to, also check and see if there are 3rd party repos available

google01103 wrote:look at q7z http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=45453 it creates a service menu under actions you have 3 options for compression: normal, max and ultra

q7z is a fabulous utility I never heard about it before, thanks google01103.

Any way, I'll share you my test with q7z.
The latest version of q7z is 0.8.0-1 but I noticed that the developer announced that he replaced q7z (depends on python & Qt) with j7z (depends on java) so my first impression was tooooo bad because I personally hate java.

I tried to run q7z-0.8.0-1.package as mentioned in this article but I got this errors:

Code: Select all

mbnoimi@admino-pc:~/Downloads/Q7Z$ ./q7z-0.8.0-1.package

The installation of this software requires some additional support
code to be installed.

A] If the support code is found in a local directory, it will be used.
   The file containing the support code will be called:

      "autopackage.tar.bz2"

 or

B] If there is an active Internet connection, the support code will be
   downloaded from:

      "http://autopackage.org/downloads/latest/autopackage.tar.bz2"

   Proxy users should ensure the http_proxy environment variable is
   set, otherwise the download may fail.


Selection B --> OK to download and install support code now? (Y/n): y

Attempting download of http://autopackage.org/downloads/latest/x86_64/autopackage.tar.bz2 ...

--2011-05-31 21:19:28--  http://autopackage.org/downloads/latest/x86_64/autopackage.tar.bz2
Resolving autopackage.org... failed: Connection timed out.
wget: unable to resolve host address `autopackage.org'
Download failed.


Attempting download of http://www.wildgardenseed.com/autopackage/latest/x86_64/autopackage.tar.bz2 ...

--2011-05-31 21:19:40--  http://www.wildgardenseed.com/autopackage/latest/x86_64/autopackage.tar.bz2
Resolving www.wildgardenseed.com... failed: Connection timed out.
wget: unable to resolve host address `www.wildgardenseed.com'
Download failed.


Attempting download of http://www.allaboutgames.co.uk/autopackage/latest/x86_64/autopackage.tar.bz2 ...

--2011-05-31 21:19:52--  http://www.allaboutgames.co.uk/autopackage/latest/x86_64/autopackage.tar.bz2
Resolving www.allaboutgames.co.uk... failed: Connection timed out.
wget: unable to resolve host address `www.allaboutgames.co.uk'
Download failed.



Please check your Internet connection, or try again later.
The autopackage support code could not be installed.

        It can be manually downloaded and installed by running the
        installation script located in the downloaded archive.


mbnoimi@admino-pc:~/Downloads/Q7Z$

So I directly built q7z from the source and tried to installed it
(as mentioned in Q7Z/Build/Install).... installation process done successfully.

I uninstalled it and tried to install the latest version from binary package (J7Z-1.1.0-bin.tar.bz2) and saw the stupid java interface .

The summary of this test...
How can any one replace Qt with java!!! this is really odd thing.

google01103 wrote:if Kubuntu doesn't provided packages ask them to, also check and see if there are 3rd party repos available

Unfortunately I couldn't find any 3rd party repository for q7z

(as best as I can tell) you'll need to find copies of the old q7z autopackage package and the autopackage runtime package

autopackage can be found here http://www.autopackage.org/download-tools.html

the q7z autopackage package is here http://code.google.com/p/k7z/downloads/ ... -1.package

lmk (my distro has a 3rd party repo that supplies q7z, though not j7z)