How to get extract/compress option on right clicking?
From the Linux Mint Forum I found the following post, Extract, Compress in right-click menu. According to that post you have 2 options:
- Use Caja instead of Nautilus (I believe Caja is just a fork of Nautilus)
- Install File Roller + xarchiver
According to that post these are the steps required to install File Roller:
- open synaptic manager
- search for file roller
- select file roller to install
- search for xarchiver
- select xarchiver to install
- restart
Didn't work for me on XFCE Linux Mint 13 with Caja. But what did work finally was:
$ sudo apt-get install engrampa
then:
$ pkill caja
Caja then restarted itself and afterwards within the last entries there is a "compress" option.
Source: http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=110&t=116033