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:
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:
You can use the Browse... button if you like.
Now click on the
OK button, and it should extract the files no problem.