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Sam
April 8th, 2005, 04:14 PM
I've searched a little and didn't found anything about using File Roller with RAR archives on AMD64. The rar package required by File Roller in order to work is not available on AMD64 (correct me if I'm wrong; this howto would be useless). But it can be done with a little trick.


Install unrar-nonfree package:
$ sudo apt-get install unrar-nonfree

Make a symlink for unrar named rar:
$ cd /usr/bin/
$ sudo ln -s unrar rar


Hope this helps ! :wink:
dermotti
April 8th, 2005, 04:45 PM
Will it unrar rar3.0 files?
Dracontopes
April 8th, 2005, 04:51 PM
With the normal "rar" package it could not open a certain .rar file, but with this package it actually works! :) I don't know if that was a 3.0 package, but good chance it was.
bored2k
April 8th, 2005, 04:55 PM
http://www.rarewares.org/debian/packages/unstable/

Search for rargui, its a GUI frontend.
Sam
April 8th, 2005, 05:25 PM
Will it unrar rar3.0 files?
Yes the unrar-nonfree package handles rar 3.0 files.

http://www.rarewares.org/debian/packages/unstable/

Search for rargui, its a GUI frontend.
It was for avoiding installing an another application. But thank you for the suggestion !
bored2k
April 8th, 2005, 05:29 PM
Yes the unrar-nonfree package handles rar 3.0 files.


It was for avoiding installing an another application. But thank you for the suggestion !
It is optional, you can't do anything with it unless you have those two files.

I still prefer the old, rar e file.rar way:-D.
Chareos
May 20th, 2005, 04:37 PM
Following these instructions file-roller no longer complains for unsupported file.

BUT... it opens and shows no files in archive. Even If I call ti to extract data from nautilus, if creates the foldername_FILES directory, but leaves it empty.

Note: of course archive is NOT empty and fully working ;-)


Any ideas ?
Sam
May 20th, 2005, 10:56 PM
Following these instructions file-roller no longer complains for unsupported file.

BUT... it opens and shows no files in archive. Even If I call ti to extract data from nautilus, if creates the foldername_FILES directory, but leaves it empty.

Note: of course archive is NOT empty and fully working ;-)


Any ideas ?
Strange... I haven't used this often (I use the terminal to unrar my files), but everytime I did it worked. Anyway it's only a hack I found for a friend which prefers the gui.
Chareos
May 21st, 2005, 02:48 AM
unrar works for me, that's just the file roller gui.
I'd really prefer to stick with a single gui, instead starting playing (and having problems) with rargui too...