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

[Corey Burger]

On 1/6/06, William Grant <tanarrifujitsu at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
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> Corey Burger wrote:
> > On 1/6/06, William Grant <tanarrifujitsu at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
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> >>Michael Richter wrote:
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> >>>Thanks, William.
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> >>>I had similar problems with 7-zip archives, though.  And I'd like to
> >>>know where to go to adjust the compression options anyway -- using -9
> >>>instead of -1 (or whatever) for bzip2, for example.
> >>>
> >>>On 07/01/06, *William Grant* <tanarrifujitsu at optusnet.com.au
> >>><mailto:tanarrifujitsu at optusnet.com.au>> wrote:
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> >>>Michael Richter wrote:
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> >>>>Can anybody assist with this or point to documentation?
> >>>
> >>>>On 06/01/06, *Michael Richter* <ttmrichter at gmail.com
> >>>
> >>><mailto:ttmrichter at gmail.com>
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> >>>><mailto: ttmrichter at gmail.com <mailto:ttmrichter at gmail.com>>> wrote:
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> >>>>    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.
> >>>
> >>
> >>It would appear that a similar thing has happened with 7ZIP, although I
> >>am unaware of any legal issues on that front. I don't really know much
> >>about File Roller (I rarely use GUI tools for such tasks), however on
> >>examination it appears to not have options for changing compression
> >>options. This might be a good spot for improvement of File Roller. I may
> >>look into it.
> >>
> >>William.
> >
> >
> > For your pleasure:
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> > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FileCompression
> >
> > Enjoying the many wonders of the wiki,
> >
> > Corey Burger
> > Ubuntu Documentation Team
>
> Well, I wouldn't have guessed that such a page would exist. Thanks Corey!
>
> However, the question remains: Why doesn't Ubuntu's File Roller (2.12)
> support 7ZIP, when File Roller has supported it since 2.9 (November 2004)?
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> William.

Because 7zip has not been add to the main repo and I suspect the mime
type was not set correctly. There are two pieces to this:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuMainInclusionP7zip - tells me that it
has been approved

Once it goes in, the mime type should fall into place.

Corey