unrar

gonzalosangil · Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2012 7:31 am Post subject: unrar

There should be an easier way to unrar files than browsing through tens of pages trying to gather disperse information...

Could any@ne, please, help me with the appropriate command to install an unrar app?

Thank You.

:)

Junichirô · Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2012 11:22 am Post subject:

unrar is non-free and is in rpmfusion-nonfree repo.

gonzalosangil · Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2012 6:00 pm Post subject:

Oh... but I got a lot of old info that I need...
How can I install the non-free utility to unrar?

(How is that there is not an open Linux App that unrar...?
This kind of things would facilitate Migration from other OS's...)

Junichirô · Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2012 7:43 pm Post subject:

I can't encourage you to use non-free software but:

gonzalosangil · Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2012 10:43 am Post subject:

Reading Around I found Peazip under LGPL at

http://www.linuxlinks.com/article/2008050115483172/PeaZip.html

Gonna work on it...
...having present Your last lines... and I'll tell You.

By the moment, keeping the System working
and I'll see when new 'strange kind of compressed files' appear again...

:)

ineiev · Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2012 5:40 am Post subject:

Peazip just invokes 7z when unpacking RARs, and 7z relies on nonfree
source to do that (which makes 7z proprietary).

There is a free program for this job, The Unarchiver
(http://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/free-rarv3-extraction); I can't tell whether
it is ready for general use, though.

gonzalosangil · Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2012 7:57 am Post subject:

OK... I'll take a further look
although it seems -at first sight- that it gives only limited solution for the .ace files...
I'd have to check the version of my stored .ace files...
Thank You Again.