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DiapDealer · 05-15-2016, 01:57 PM

I noticed the same thing. Somebody mentioned Ark on KDE had the same problem. Seems like some archive utilities read the mimetype file (or assume a mimetype from the extension) and try to find a matching plugin instead of simply treating it like a zip archive.

EDIT: for what it's worth, I just use xarchiver on systems where the default archive manager seems to not want to deal with epubs.

05-15-2016, 01:57 PM	#30
DiapDealer Grand Sorcerer Posts: 29,139 Karma: 211348980 Join Date: Jan 2010 Device: Nexus 7, Kindle Fire HD	I noticed the same thing. Somebody mentioned Ark on KDE had the same problem. Seems like some archive utilities read the mimetype file (or assume a mimetype from the extension) and try to find a matching plugin instead of simply treating it like a zip archive. EDIT: for what it's worth, I just use xarchiver on systems where the default archive manager seems to not want to deal with epubs. Last edited by DiapDealer; 05-15-2016 at 02:44 PM.