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native unzipping under wine

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Is there a way to extract ZIP-files under wine without resorting to "3rd party applications"? When running windows natively, ZIP-files can be extracted directly in the explorer. However, the explorer that comes with wine (wineconsole explorer), has no idea how to handle ZIP-files. Instead i get an error message: > There is no Windows program configured to open this type of file It's of course trivial to just unzip the file under linux (without going through wine), however my use-case is a bit more convoluted: - my system is Wine-4.0 (Debian/buster) - a script-application downloads files from the internet and is supposed to unzip them non-interactively - on un*x systems (when being run natively) it uses unzip - in Windows (running natively) it creates a [VBScript](https://stackoverflow.com/a/911796/1169096) that uses the built-in capabilities of Windows to unzip ZIP-files. - when running the Windows version of the application through wine - it cannot access the unzip cmdline tools - but the VBScript also fails (after installing wsh57 (the scripting interpreter) via winetricks), because wine cannot unzip. - (I would like to be able to run the application under wine; so even though the application can natively under un*x So: is there something I can do to my wine installation, to make it extract ZIP-files as if it were on Windows?
Asked by umläute (6704 rep)
Apr 30, 2019, 12:46 PM