You are right, it's a different problem. The makers of this file didn't fully understand the concept of "file extensions".
Rename the file from "MaXX-Desktop-v2.1.1-LINUX-x64-tar.xz" to "MaXX- Desktop-v2.1.1-LINUX-x64.tar.xz" and it will work. We have no way of knowing that the file contains a TAR archive in other way than by checking for correct extension: zaytsev@Yurys-MBP Downloads % file MaXX-Desktop-v2.1.1-LINUX-x64-tar.xz MaXX-Desktop-v2.1.1-LINUX-x64-tar.xz: XZ compressed data, checksum CRC64 This is why we can only detect that it's a compressed XZ file and upon pressing Enter you are getting its contents streamed into a pager. P.S. Before you ask to adjust the extension parser. What should we do with the file like "wistar.xz" ? Or "pit-of-tar.xz"? They will be wrongly treated as TAR archives otherwise which they aren't. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2063263 Title: mc can't browse some tar.xz archives To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mc/+bug/2063263/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
