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aldeano

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Registered: 2009-09-04

Posts: 30

[solved] Evince doesn't open cbr or cbz files

I'm using evince 3.20.1-2. Since this week i'm unable to open comic book files. The message

Unable to open document “file:///home/userfolder/somecomicbook.cbz”.
File type Zip archive (application/zip) is not supported

appears when i open a cbz or cbr file.

I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling with no luck. Just as reference, some of the thumbnails are generated in the folders, not every cbz file has their. I can open this files with file-roller, so i guess it's not a zip problem.

Zip version is 3.0-7, unzip is 6.0-12, libzip is 1.1.3-1, libarchive is 3.2.1-2 (system is up to date).

Last edited by aldeano (2016-10-12 22:45:03)

mxr

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Registered: 2009-07-08

Posts: 7

Re: [solved] Evince doesn't open cbr or cbz files

I can confirm that this happens to me too, but evinve-tumbnailer does not generate new thumnails for me (only the ones already in the cache are displayed).

But I discovered that adding application/zip to the list of supported mime types fixed this. (But I have no idea why I had to do this manually after the updated, it seems like a hack to me)

To add application/zip I edited /usr/lib/evince/4/backends/comicsdocument.evince-backend and added at the end:

MimeType=application/x-cbr;application/x-cbz;application/x-cb7;application/x-cbt;application/x-ext-cbr;application/x-ext-cbz;application/x-ext-cb7;application/x-ext-cbt;application/zip

highptcr

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Registered: 2016-09-23

Posts: 3

Re: [solved] Evince doesn't open cbr or cbz files

Same situation here. Some upgrade silently broke this at some point, and none of my systems running gnome/evince generate thumbnails or open comic books anymore. Trying to open with evince gives a file type error (application/zip or application/vnd.rar) for both cbz and cbr files. Using @mxr's hack fixes opening cbz files, but thumbnail generation and cbr (even with vnd.rar) still remain broken. Hopefully someone can suggest something here.

edit: Found the culprit, shared-mime-info upgrade messed the comics. Using 1.6-2 works for now.

Last edited by highptcr (2016-09-23 21:10:37)

JB26

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Registered: 2014-12-19

Posts: 7

Re: [solved] Evince doesn't open cbr or cbz files

This is fixed in evince 3.22. The new version is already in gnome-unstable:
https://www.archlinux.org/packages/?q=evince (Download from mirror and install with "pacman -U")

Found the culprit, shared-mime-info upgrade messed the comics. Using 1.6-2 works for now.

The mime-type for "cbr" and "cbz" files changed with version 1.7 of shared-mime-info: changelog

loqs

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Registered: 2014-03-06

Posts: 17,321

Re: [solved] Evince doesn't open cbr or cbz files

This is fixed in evince 3.22. The new version is already in gnome-unstable:
https://www.archlinux.org/packages/?q=evince (Download from mirror and install with "pacman -U")

That would result in a partial upgrade

JB26

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Registered: 2014-12-19

Posts: 7

Re: [solved] Evince doesn't open cbr or cbz files

This is fixed in evince 3.22. The new version is already in gnome-unstable:
https://www.archlinux.org/packages/?q=evince (Download from mirror and install with "pacman -U")

That would result in a partial upgrade

You are of course right. But I don't think that is a problem here.

What would be the right solution? I didn't want to update with gnome-unstable enabled because I thought that would break more than partially upgrading evince.

loqs

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Registered: 2014-03-06

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Re: [solved] Evince doesn't open cbr or cbz files

Would suggest applying the two patches that appear to be needed to fix the mime type changes to the existing 3.20 package such as

# $Id: PKGBUILD 273595 2016-08-11 11:58:16Z heftig $
# Maintainer: Jan de Groot <jgc@archlinux.org>

pkgname=evince
pkgver=3.20.1
pkgrel=2.1
pkgdesc="Document viewer (PDF, Postscript, djvu, tiff, dvi, XPS, SyncTex support with gedit, comics books (cbr,cbz,cb7 and cbt))"
url="https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Evince"
arch=(i686 x86_64)
license=(GPL)
depends=(gtk3 libgxps libspectre gsfonts poppler-glib djvulibre t1lib dconf
         libsecret gsettings-desktop-schemas gnome-desktop libarchive
         gst-plugins-base-libs)
makedepends=(itstool libnautilus-extension texlive-bin gobject-introspection
             intltool docbook-xsl python gtk-doc)
optdepends=('texlive-bin: DVI support'
	    'gvfs: bookmark support and session saving')
groups=(gnome)
options=('!emptydirs')
source=(https://download.gnome.org/sources/$pkgname/${pkgver:0:4}/$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.xz
        71b1323aa848adfb8139db7fddae0d68c1bd1ba1::https://git.gnome.org/browse/evince/patch/?id=71b1323aa848adfb8139db7fddae0d68c1bd1ba1
        364b340d59a232d600c58e49942172af30e0407d::https://git.gnome.org/browse/evince/patch/?id=364b340d59a232d600c58e49942172af30e0407d)
sha256sums=('fc7ac23036939c24f02e9fed6dd6e28a85b4b00b60fa4b591b86443251d20055'
            'e773f30c22f75f41b55639a7e9bda7470f7ba71051824e804715ea10e74b7d12'
            'b4949d79b49c1a4a77be42a390b51aad5f3faf9a92c6347904048994b4d1454c')

prepare() {
  cd $pkgname-$pkgver
  patch -p1 -i ../71b1323aa848adfb8139db7fddae0d68c1bd1ba1
  patch -p1 -i ../364b340d59a232d600c58e49942172af30e0407d
}

build() {
  cd $pkgname-$pkgver

  BROWSER_PLUGIN_DIR=/usr/lib/epiphany/plugins \
  ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var \
    --libexecdir=/usr/lib/$pkgname \
    --disable-static \
    --enable-compile-warnings=minimum \
    --enable-introspection \
    --enable-nautilus \
    --enable-pdf \
    --enable-tiff \
    --enable-djvu \
    --enable-dvi \
    --enable-t1lib \
    --enable-comics \
    --enable-gtk-doc \
    --enable-multimedia \
    --disable-schemas-compile

  sed -i -e 's/ -shared / -Wl,-O1,--as-needed\0/g' libtool

  make
}

package() {
  cd $pkgname-$pkgver
  make DESTDIR="$pkgdir" install
}

This builds successfully for me no further testing was carried out.

JB26

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Registered: 2014-12-19

Posts: 7

Re: [solved] Evince doesn't open cbr or cbz files

Isn't that a partial upgrade as well?

To be fair you removed a lot of variables where something could go wrong.

loqs

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Registered: 2014-03-06

Posts: 17,321

Re: [solved] Evince doesn't open cbr or cbz files

Isn't that a partial upgrade as well?

It will be built against all the current libraries so no.
From https://www.archlinux.org/packages/gnom … 64/evince/

Dependencies (25)
    dconf
    djvulibre
    gnome-desktop (staging)
    gsettings-desktop-schemas (staging)
    gsfonts
    gst-plugins-base-libs
    gtk3 (staging)
    libarchive
    libgxps (staging)
    libsecret
    libspectre
    poppler-glib
    t1lib
    gvfs (staging) (optional) - bookmark support and session saving
    texlive-bin (optional) - DVI support
    docbook-xsl (make)
    git (make)
    gnome-common (make)
    gobject-introspection (staging) (make)
    gtk-doc (staging) (make)
    intltool (make)
    itstool (staging) (make)
    libnautilus-extension (staging) (make)
    python (make)
    texlive-bin (make)

So the eight dependencies noted as staging in the above (meaning the 3.22 version from gnome-unstable) are provided by the 3.20 version in the patched package rebuild
Edit:
Its still unsupported as the PKGBUILD and resulting package are not supplied by arch or possibly it has the same status as an AUR package.

Last edited by loqs (2016-09-26 22:02:02)

JB26

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Registered: 2014-12-19

Posts: 7

Re: [solved] Evince doesn't open cbr or cbz files

To be a really pedantic, I would say you would need to rebuild all packages depending on evince against your version as well. Which are not many and probably not installed on many systems

loqs

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Registered: 2014-03-06

Posts: 17,321

Re: [solved] Evince doesn't open cbr or cbz files

Good point
Have you tried to see if the PKGBUILD plus patches works and fixes the issue?

aldeano

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Registered: 2009-09-04

Posts: 30

Re: [solved] Evince doesn't open cbr or cbz files

Can confirm, with the upgrade to evince 3.22 the problem is gone. Marking as solved.