Ubuntu Version:
Example: 26.04 LTS
Problem Description:
Just discovered this after recently migrating to the latest lts and suddenly my scripts failed. The man pages also confirm this.
I don’t see a question, or support issue, except maybe you’re after a reason as to why it was removed. That is its no longer maintained.
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1122393
Please remove fuse-zip from Debian.
It was recently orphaned and removed from Testing.
Its last upstream release was in 2021. It still uses the old fuse, which will not be included in Debian 14. fuse 3 was originally released 9 years ago. upstream has a todo item to support fuse 3 from 2019.
Launchpad page is Publishing history : fuse-zip package : Ubuntu
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Well, yes and no. In 2021, fuse-zip was forked as mount-zip, which is still under active development.
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Welcome to Ubuntu Discourse 
I assume you mean this package?
It’s not in the official Ubuntu repos (as far as I can tell) and maybe I missed something but I don’t see any installation instructions?
My comment was merely about the observation that fuse-zip was dead upstream, consequently being dropped from Debian and then Ubuntu. The newer mount-zip hasn’t gotten into the official repos yet, according to https://bugs.debian.org/1068638. The link you pasted has a file INSTALL.md that has some instructions.
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One crucial difference with mount-zip which is mentioned in the Debian bug:
Compared to fuse-zip, it seams reading performance is improved, but write mode was dropped.
Maybe that’s an important feature in the OP’s use case.
On a more general note, you may want to explore a more rustic lower level approach; see what lsar (sudo apt install unar) can do for you; the idea being to find the files you want to work with that way and provide them as arguments to zip/unzip. As an aside, unar is suggested by the venerable Midnight Commander (sudo apt install mc), which can transparently open and manipulate just about any archive file format under the sun.
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