Unable to extract files in GUI or terminal

[marioman1980]

I am reasonably new to Mint and Linux in general and up until now have had no problems that I haven't been able to resolve.

For some reason I am unable to extract any kind of compressed file via the GUI or using terminal. Also, the 'Extract here' option has gone from the GUI menu but file-roller is still installed. I have been able to extract files before so this is a new issue. The issue arose when trying to extract a Raspbian image for my pi. The progress bar gets about 1/3 of the way then just hangs. Terminal also hangs. I have tried other files with no luck.

Any help greatly appreciated

OS = Rebecca 32-bit Cinammon

[Buzzsaw]

For some reason I am unable to extract any kind of compressed file via the GUI or using terminal.

What commands have you tried? Were there output messages?

the 'Extract here' option has gone from the GUI menu but file-roller is still installed

Is nemo-fileroller installed?

[marioman1980]

Hi buzzsaw - thanks for your response.

I've tried...
unzip Downloads/2015-05-05-raspbian-wheezy.zip

This resulted in...
Archive: Downloads/2015-05-05-raspbian-wheezy.zip
inflating: 2015-05-05-raspbian-wheezy.img
...at which point it hangs.

Tried...
bzip2 -d Downloads/ubuntu-mate-15.04-desktop-armhf-raspberry-pi-2.img.bz2
...no output - just hangs

Yes, nemo-fileroller is installed

[Buzzsaw]

Have you tried extracting any files that aren't related to Raspberry Pi?

[marioman1980]

I've just successfully a non-Pi related file!! Any clue why this would be?

Also, I still don't understand why the 'Extract here' option has gone.

[Buzzsaw]

I've just successfully a non-Pi related file!! Any clue why this would be?

I suspected that the Raspberry Pi files were bad.

Also, I still don't understand why the 'Extract here' option has gone.

I don't use Cinnamon or File Roller, but as far as I know, all that's required to have the File Roller options in Nemo is for the 'file-roller' package and the 'nemo-file-roller' package to be installed. You could try reinstalling both packages.

Perhaps someone who actually uses File Roller can offer some insight.