Extracting Archives
CONVENTIONS USED

Many people are afraid of the command line, or prefer to use GUIs for everything, myself included (in the second category, that is). This is a short tutorial on how to extract archives without using the terminal.

I will assume that you have karchiver installed. If you don't, you can install it using Software Manager, or in a console as root, using urpmi karchiver.

First of all, locate your archive that you want to extract. Right-click on it.

You should get a pop-up menu like this:
Right-Click Menu
You want to go to Extract here...


Then you will be prompted to choose where to extract it to. I usually use the default directory, but you can Browse... to another directory, or type one in.

You will get a similar prompt to this:
Extract
You can use the Browse... button if you like.


Now click on the OK button, and it should extract the files no problem.


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