unrar for dapper

[ulrich steffens]

Am Sonntag, den 05.02.2006, 20:53 -0500 schrieb Lee Revell:
> On Mon, 2006-02-06 at 03:09 +0100, ulrich steffens wrote:
> > Am Samstag, den 04.02.2006, 18:10 -0500 schrieb Lee Revell:
> > > On Sat, 2006-02-04 at 17:03 -0600, Jeremy Teale wrote:
> > > > Sorry, conveniently ignored the Dapper part.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Also unrar-nonfree can't handle multi part archives.
> > > 
> > > Lee
> > > 
> > it does.
> > while the free unrar version isnt capable of doing anything besides
> > spitting out the actual message that it cannot handle the file you throw
> > at it, unrar-nonfree runs pretty well here. worked pretty in breezy and
> > now in dapper (just dpkg'ed the breezy .deb).
> 
> OK so why couldn't it handle my archive?  I copied it over to a Windows
> box and Winrar extracted it just fine.
> 
> Is there some trick to unpacking a multi part archive with unrar-free?
> I cd'ed to the directory and unrar'ed the .rar file, expecting it to
> pick up .r00 etc automatically and it didn't...
> 
> (of course it's idiotic to post anything in multi part RAR format these
> days but that's another issue...)
> 
> Lee
> 
> 
hmm, i'm a little confused here... free, nonfree, non-nonfree... what?

unrar-free 
couldn't do anything for me so far. not one single rar-file i tried
could be processed. pretty useless, all in all.

unrar-nonfree 
could handle every rar file so far, no matter if single- or multifile.
in dapper its gone, but the deb from breezy works fine for me. 
maybe the archive you tried uses some extras that are not supported by
unrar-nonfree? in my experience though, i hadn't had a file that
couldn't be processed.

i use unrar-nonfree either with file-roller through right-click in
nautilus the .rar file and > extract here, or in a terminal
	unrar x filetoextract.rar

oh, i use unrar-nonfree without rar installed.

ulrich