Gnome FAQ: How do I open .rar files with file-roller

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Sun, 01 May 2005 15:02:50 -0500, Tom McLaughlin  
<tmclaugh at sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:

> On Sun, 2005-05-01 at 15:53 -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
>> On Sun, 2005-05-01 at 15:35 -0400, Tom McLaughlin wrote:
>> > Questions about how to open .rar files in file-roller have come up on
>> > #FreeBSD-Gnome a few time lately.  Would something like this be useful
>> > in the FreeBSD Gnome FAQ?
>>
>> Really?  This is the first I've heard it mentioned.  Admittedly I
>> haven't been following as closely lately.
>>
>
> Probably just coincidence but I saw the question three times last month.
> One being me of course.
>
>> >
>> > How do I open .rar files with file-roller?
>> >
>> > To open a .rar file with file-roller the rar port (archivers/rar)  
>> needs
>> > to be installed at run time.  The file-roller port does not need to be
>> > rebuilt after installing rar.
>>
>> Note: this is only half the battle.  You also need the archivers/unrar
>> port installed as well.
>>
>
> I took a closer look and yup, unrar is needed too.  Odd because I had
> problems with .rar files until rar was installed even with unrar
> installed.

Right now, I don't have rar installed but only unrar and seem work with  
rar file. I haven't test rar files that are split, so it might need rar  
for that. I do remember that unrar doesn't work on everything, but I don't  
know what about with newer fileroller.

>> > Further, the rar port cannot be included as a run time dependency for
>> > file-roller due to its license which prevents a FreeBSD package from
>> > being created.  The unrar port has a less restrictive license and can  
>> be
>> > packaged but it's binary is not used by file-roller for .rar support.
>>
>> Not only is this correct, but we decided including every possible
>> archiver as a fileroller RUN_DEPENDS was just ridiculous.  People would
>> build what they need to handle the files they use.  FreeBSD includes a
>> number of reasonable defaults.

I second. I don't have any problem to install (un)rar on my own.

> Only reason it came up for me is because rar files are still popular on
> P2P networks.  (I swear I wasn't downloading the entire Judas Priest
> album collection.)  Stuff like lha, arj, and arc I haven't seen in ages
> but I still see rar used a lot.

RAR is pretty damn popular in my shoes too. I am using it almost everyday  
and I have a license for it.

Cheers,
Mezz

>> Joe
>>
>> >
>> >
>> > Tom


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