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 that uses the built-in capabilities of Windows to unzip ZIP-files.
- on un*x systems (when being run natively) it uses
- when running the Windows version of the application through wine
- it cannot access the
unzipcmdline tools - but the VBScript also fails (after installing
wsh57(the scripting interpreter) viawinetricks), because wine cannot unzip.
- it cannot access the
- (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?
