I installed unzip on my N810, but contrary to what is written at "Internet Tablet School", you cannot unzip from File Manager without also installing Xarchiver.

Does anybody know where I can get Xarchiver? The link at maemo.org is broken (page not found). Poking around the author's web site eventually takes me to this file:
xarchiver-0.5.2.tar.bz2

Can I install this in my N810? If so, how?

Wayne Estes

It's in extras.

Actually it's much easier. You can install it via app manager from Maemo extras repository.

Two replies suggest that I download Xarchiver from maemo extras repository. I previously tried multiple times to download the maemo extras repository, and I always get a "Failed Catalogs" error. The detail screen says:

http://repository.maemo.org/extras/d...el/Packages.gz
404 Not Found [IP:206.112.100.132 80]

I did find and download Xarchiver from garage.maemo.org. But the Xarchiver installation failed, saying I need 3 other applications: gnutar, unrar, and bzip2. I installed all of them, but I still can't unzip from File Manager.

Wayne Estes

When somebody says that something is in extras, it means that the application is found from application manager

I can manually launch the Xarchiver program and then unzip a .ZIP archive. Xarchiver works great.

But I can't just double click on a .ZIP archive from File Manager. Then Xarchiver only stays open for a fraction of a second. At least I know a way to make it work.

Here's how I got Unzipping to work:
1. Install unzip application (easy to find).
2. Install bzip2, unrar, and gnutar from
https://garage.maemo.org/projects/xarchive/
3. Install Xarchiver from the same site (this must be done last)

Wayne Estes

I am not sure if Dbus-Switchboard is what you need, but it should allow you to associate certain file types with a handler. So once you set it up, and it's a somewhat complicated setup, you should just be able to double click a zip to open it. Here is the thread where you can get dbus-switchboard.