are you referring to files archived as .7z

If so then they are not supported and cannot be supported as there is no
server side support that can be guaranteed to be present

On 22 March 2015 at 09:28, shadow-kun notifications@github.com wrote:

Steps to reproduce the issue

get a component, go add to archive, have it set to compress. Upload via
com_installer.
Expected result

To install a component
Actual result

Errors can't read file.
System information (as much as possible)

Dreamhost hosting server. Database seperated on to own system. Using super
user to upload.
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No, zip files created with 7zip

Can you provide an example zip file please

http://beta.shadowreaper.net/com_events.zip

Sorry this is not a joomla problem - I cant extract that zip file on my Mac either using the native mac tools

Fair enough< I think I figured it out just then, it was in deflate64 or the standard deflate compression. Please close this.

Closed as requested