[mc] what archive support packages are required to be installed in an rpm distro for mc to navigate .debs as it can with .rpms?

Felix Miata mrmazda at earthlink.net
Mon Feb 12 08:15:27 UTC 2024


What archive support packages are required to be installed in an rpm distro for mc
to navigate (ubuntu 22.04) .debs as it can with .rpms? My Google-fu isn't doing
very well with this. As it stands, trying to navigate with mc produces:

	...deb' uses unknown compression for member 'control.tar.zst', giving up

Installed here in openSUSE:
# zypper se -si arc zip zstd dpkg apt zma xz | grep 6_6
i+ | bzip2          | package | 1.0.8-150400.1.122    | x86_64 | OSS
i+ | dpkg           | package | 1.19.0.4-150000.4.4.1 | x86_64 | OSS
i  | gzip           | package | 1.10-150200.10.1      | x86_64 | OSS
i  | libarchive13   | package | 3.5.1-150400.3.12.1   | x86_64 | OSS
i  | libKF5Archive5 | package | 5.103.0-150500.1.3    | x86_64 | OSS
i  | liblzma5       | package | 5.2.3-150000.4.7.1    | x86_64 | OSS
i+ | libzip-tools   | package | 1.8.0-150400.1.7      | x86_64 | OSS
i  | libzip5        | package | 1.8.0-150400.1.7      | x86_64 | OSS
i  | libzstd1       | package | 1.5.0-150400.3.3.1    | x86_64 | OSS
i  | unzip          | package | 6.00-150000.4.11.1    | x86_64 | OSS
i  | xz             | package | 5.2.3-150000.4.7.1    | x86_64 | OSS
i+ | zip            | package | 3.0-2.22              | x86_64 | OSS
i  | zstd           | package | 1.5.0-150400.3.3.1    | x86_64 | OSS
#
What else is needed?
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