Can't unzip .zip files in Xubuntu 12.04 64-bit

Question

I have a static HTML container div like this:

<div id="dvExchangeNames">
</div>

on document.ready() event, I get some strings using Ajax call and append each of string as div content inside the container dvExchangeNames. The new HTML looks like this:

<div id="dvExchangeNames">

  <div class='drop'> Foo </div>
  <div class='drop'> Bar </div>

</div>

I need to bind ondrop event on the div with drop class. So I do it like this using event bubbling:

$("#dvExchangeNames").on("dropstart", ".drop", function () {

    $(this).addClass("active");

}).on("drop", function (ev, dd) {

    $(this).toggleClass("dropped");

}).on("dropend", function () {

    $(this).removeClass("active");
});

The problem is that it adds, toggles and removes the classes from dvExchangeNames but I want this to be done with the child div which actually fired the dropstart event.

As obviously, $(this) selects the parent div. I tried $(e.target).addClass() but it didn't work. I'm using THIS jQuery plugin to get multi select functionality using drag-drop.

Solution

go to the command line ctrl + alt + t, cd to the directory the file is contained in like so:

cd /path/to/dir

Then use the unzip command to extract the file into the current directory:

unzip file.zip

You can also unzip a file into a directory of choice by using the '-d' flag:

unzip file.zip -d /path/to/dir

I believe unzip comes pre-installed on 12.04 but if not type the following command into the terminal to install:

sudo apt-get install unzip

Hope this helps and let me know if you need any clarification.

Comments

[Alter Lagos]

Are you sure the files are not corrupted? or maybe they are not really a zip file? you could check them in a terminal with file yourzipfile.zip

[Jason Smith]

Even using unzip in the command line wasn't opening the files. I suspect flareget was somehow corrupting or not downloading the files right. As soon as I ditched flareget and installed downthemall I have had no problems with downloading and opening .zip files now.

[Syed Ali Taqi]

@Guruprassad Rao: I tried adding the delegation event but it didn't work. Can you provide a code example?

[Guruprasad J Rao]

@SyedAliTaqi I could have but am not able to create a demo since the plugin isn't available as a CDN.. I tried copying all the js but unfortunately not able to replicate the feature in fiddle..

[Syed Ali Taqi]

@Guruprassad Rao: I switched to this plugin and its working fine. Thank you for your help.