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I downloaded some .zip files and tried three different programs to open them and these are the results that I got:

Squeeze: command exited with status 2304

Archive Manager: cannot open file as archive

Xarchiver: Archive format is not recognized

So, how am I supposed to open .zip files?

Jason Smith
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go to the command line ctrl + alt + t, cd to the directory the file is contained in like so:

cd /path/to/dir

Then use the unzip command to extract the file into the current directory:

unzip file.zip

You can also unzip a file into a directory of choice by using the '-d' flag:

unzip file.zip -d /path/to/dir

I believe unzip comes pre-installed on 12.04 but if not type the following command into the terminal to install:

sudo apt-get install unzip

Hope this helps and let me know if you need any clarification.

Bryan
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