HOWTO: RAR support with File Roller on AMD64

**Sam** · April 8th, 2005

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 !

**dermotti** · April 8th, 2005

Will it unrar rar3.0 files?

**Dracontopes** · April 8th, 2005

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

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

Search for rargui, its a GUI frontend.

**Sam** · April 8th, 2005

Originally Posted by dermotti

Will it unrar rar3.0 files?

Yes the unrar-nonfree package handles rar 3.0 files.

Originally Posted by bored2k

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

Originally Posted by Sam

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

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**Chareos** · May 20th, 2005

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 21st, 2005

Originally Posted by Chareos

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

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...