Me again: File Roller and RAR/7Z/etc. archives.

[William Grant]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

Michael Richter wrote:
> Can anybody assist with this or point to documentation?
> 
> On 06/01/06, *Michael Richter* <ttmrichter at gmail.com
> <mailto:ttmrichter at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     I'm trying to open some RAR and 7Z archives I have lying around. 
>     File Roller, according to its web page, supports these.  Yet when I
>     try to open one, I get "unsupported archive type".
> 
>     Just to be sure, I downloaded p7zip from Synaptic.  It works fine
>     with them, but File Roller still says unsupported archive type.  How
>     do I make File Roller support what it claims to support?

RAR is unsupported in File Roller because of patent issues, I believe.
The version of File Roller included in Ubuntu has RAR support removed
because of possible legal issues with the RAR format. Your best bet for
getting RAR support in File Roller is to compile the source from the
website, unfortunately, I believe.

William.

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux)

iD8DBQFDvwo+Gr2rfWFeutsRArQJAJ9qOprzNM38z1afNsyMdFRBzLP3CQCgqFkb
C8iHYYB8edLew/tNP9oq5Iw=
=oPhO
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----