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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