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rvijay
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.rar support

#1 Post by rvijay »

It will be helpful if there was a program for puppy linux to open .rar archives/files. Presently, I need to use windows to do this.

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#4 Post by tempestuous »

Why install anything extra? Puppy 5.x already contains the Linux "rar" utility. Do this -

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cd /path/to/MYrarARCHIVE.rar
rar x MYrarARCHIVE.rar
Done.

Obviously replace "MYrarARCHIVE.rar" with your real RAR archive filename.

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#5 Post by GustavoYz »

@tempestous: Am I missing something on here or its 'unrar' instead of 'rar'?
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#6 Post by tempestuous »

"rar" and "unrar" will both do the job.

"unrar" will decompress.
"rar" will compress and decompress. Obviously "rar" is a larger executable.

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#7 Post by GustavoYz »

I don't have 'rar', aparently...
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#8 Post by tempestuous »

Oops, I have a lot of development utilities installed on my Puppy 5.1 hard drive.
I just booted to the Puppy 5.1 CD now, and I see that it has neither rar nor unrar.

I think I installed the official version of rar/unrar from
http://www.rarlab.com/download.htm
but I see that while unrar is freeware, rar is trialware and cannot be redistributed.

Sorry for the confusion.
Here's the latest version of unrar, compiled from Ubuntu-supplied source code.
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#9 Post by 8-bit »

Another alternative is to install and use Peazip which seems to handle rar compressed files just fine.

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#10 Post by GustavoYz »

8-bit wrote:Another alternative is to install and use Peazip which seems to handle rar compressed files just fine.
A cool thing about PeaZip is that you can extract massively a lot of compressed files.

@tempestous: Thanks for the pet! :D

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