GUI archive manager that works well over ssh

Question

I'm using file-roller and it doesn't work well when my archive file is accessed via ssh (it throws an error when I try to open it). Any alternatives?

Answer 1

You can access remote files using fish:// or sftp:// with every KDE application. For example you can connect to the remote host using file managers like Dolphin or Konqueror and after that every file that you click will be open (in KDE app) like it was file on your local drive. Archives will be opened in Ark (KDE archive manager). And of course you can open archives directly in Ark (File -> Open -> sftp://remotehost/path/to/file)...

Another alternative that I know, that it works is Emacs... ;) But before you try it you should look at Emacs learning curve... ;)

Answer 2

It Works For Me™. Gnome applications have built-in support for file access over ssh through Gvfs (formerly Gnome-VFS).

Another way to access files over ssh is sshfs. It requires an OS that supports FUSE, but most unices (Linux, Mac OS X, *BSD, Solaris, …) do these days. Since the files are presented through the ordinary filesystem interface, no specific application support is required. I don't know if there's a GUI wrapper for it; the command-line workflow is

mkdir ~/example.com
sshfs example.com:/path/to/directory ~/example.com
file-roller ~/example.com/foo.zip
# ...
fusermount -u ~/example.com