I am also getting this same problem with alot of tar.gz archives, hopefully this gets fixed soon
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to file-roller in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1238266 Title: "Error setting owner: Operation not permitted" when extracting Eclipse in saucy Status in File Roller: Fix Released Status in “file-roller” package in Ubuntu: Fix Committed Status in “file-roller” source package in Saucy: In Progress Bug description: Impact: some archives can't we uncompressed Test case: 1. Download this tar.gz: http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?file=/technology/epp/downloads/release/juno/SR2 /eclipse-cpp-juno-SR2-linux-gtk-x86_64.tar.gz 2. Open it with Archive Manager 3. Try to extract to a folder, error occurs. "Error setting owner: Operation not permitted" Regression potential: Check that uncompressing archives from file-roller works as it should To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/file-roller/+bug/1238266/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp