It transpires that the problem is to do with the mobile broadband that many of us now use. Its compression methods are what mangled the files, though I have now moved from Vodafone ot T-mobile with none of the symptoms.
You can close the bug I filed. Thanks. Lee Wilson > Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 19:46:17 +0000 > From: pe...@ubuntu.com > To: poachede...@hotmail.co.uk > Subject: [Bug 370535] Re: won't open tar.gz in 9.04 > > I cannot reproduce this, could you attach an example to the report? > > ** Changed in: file-roller (Ubuntu) > Status: New => Incomplete > > -- > won't open tar.gz in 9.04 > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/370535 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > > Status in “file-roller” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete > > Bug description: > Binary package hint: file-roller > > Themes downloaded from for example art.gnome.org won't open by Archive > Manager (apparently this is 'file-roller'?). This happens on both my > computers, with Ubuntu 9.04 freshly installed; no updates so far have solved > this and it's a common function. I've tried downloading similar files from > other sites with the same results. > > Neither do these files work in the same way as with 8.10 where you can just > dump them into the Themes box in System > Appearances. There is a message > about not being able to extract them, so perhaps it's some package that is > common to both Archive Manager and the Themes software and possibly not > file-roller. I've tried this enough times on both machines to know it's not > about rogue corrupt files. > > Quickly solved by you, I imagine. Good luck. > Thanks. _________________________________________________________________ Save time by using Hotmail to access your other email accounts. http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/167688463/direct/01/ -- won't open tar.gz in 9.04 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/370535 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
