Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
** Changed in: file-roller (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1174649
Title:
File Roller cannot re-author APK archives
Status in “file-roller” package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
I have an APK (an archive which contains an Android application) which
I created using the standard Android Developer Tools. It opens fine
and I can extract the contents, but I have real problems, and unusual
errors, when trying to add or modify contents.
Every attempt I make to add either a folder or a file to the archive causes
the popup error...
"An error occurred while adding files to the archive."
...whilst file-roller reports to Standard Error...
** (file-roller:1801): WARNING **: Error making symbolic link: File exists
This also happens if I delete the target file or folder from the
archive before trying to upload a new one.
I've been attempting to simply replace some of the files in the
archive with more up-to-date ones, without having to rebuild the app
from scratch with the dev tools (I don't have access to the source and
tools right now). I only need to change one line in a html file, and
replace four icons.
The tool should be capable of managing this archive, and indeed I found a
workaround, which is to use the .cache/ mounting of the archive to rsync a load
of changes into the folder structure. In my case it was...
sudo rsync --recursive ./res/drawable-* /home/cefn/.cache/.fr-LedBmX/res/
...a path which I figured out by opening a file with a text editor or image
viewer, which then reveals the auto-generated path to this archive's
temporarily mounted directories via the Save As dialog. Then file-roller
helpfully asks if I want to synchronize the changes on disk with the archive. I
say yes, and the archive is updated. However, this workaround is not really
usable for most people.
N.B. at the time I was running file-roller with sudo as I wondered
whether there was a permissions problem, but the same happens without
sudo.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: file-roller 3.6.3-1ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-19.29-generic 3.8.8
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-19-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Apr 30 08:37:16 2013
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
TERM=xterm
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: file-roller
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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