unrar for dapper
Lee Revell
rlrevell at joe-job.com
Mon Feb 6 17:35:37 UTC 2006
On Mon, 2006-02-06 at 13:09 +0100, ulrich steffens wrote:
> hmm, i'm a little confused here... free, nonfree, non-nonfree... what?
>
Yes exactly. There used to only be ONE package, unrar, that did what I
needed. Now it's a confusing mess.
Anyway, I confused nonfree for free.
> 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.
>
Yes, exactly.
> 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.
>
Where do I get it for Dapper?!?!?!?!?
# apt-get install unrar-nonfree
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Package unrar-nonfree is not available, but is referred to by another
package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package unrar-nonfree has no installation candidate
> 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.
Arrgh, this is such a f**cking pain - I just want to uncompess a
f**cking RAR archive, it takes 2 seconds on Windows... why can't this
Just Work again?
Lee
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