unrar for dapper

Toby Kelsey toby_kelsey at ntlworld.com
Mon Feb 6 20:04:55 UTC 2006


Lee Revell wrote:

> Where do I get it for Dapper?!?!?!?!?

It's in multiverse:

> aptitude show unrar-nonfree
Package: unrar-nonfree
New: yes
State: installed
Automatically installed: no
Version: 3.4.3-1build1
Priority: optional
Section: multiverse/utils
Maintainer: Chris Anderson <chris at nullcode.org>
Uncompressed Size: 221k
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.4-1), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.0.1), libstdc++6 (>= 4.0.1)
Conflicts: unrar, rar (<= 2.60-1)
Replaces: unrar
Provides: unrar
Description: Unarchiver for .rar files (non-free version)
 Unrar can extract files from .rar archives. If you want to create .rar archives, install package rar.


> 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?

It's a karmic principle that before software gets to the It Just Works stage, it has
to go through the Why The F*ck Isn't It Doing What I Want stage.

Don't worry, we are getting Ubuntu to that magic point.  Meanwhile, try Yoga and ice-cream.

Toby




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