4 messages in org.freebsd.freebsd-gnomeGnome FAQ: How do I open .rar files w...| From | Sent On | Attachments |
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| Tom McLaughlin | May 1, 2005 12:34 pm | |
| Joe Marcus Clarke | May 1, 2005 12:53 pm | |
| Tom McLaughlin | May 1, 2005 1:02 pm | |
| Jeremy Messenger | May 1, 2005 1:31 pm |
| Subject: | Gnome FAQ: How do I open .rar files with file-roller | |
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| From: | Tom McLaughlin (tmcl...@sdf.lonestar.org) | |
| Date: | May 1, 2005 1:02:25 pm | |
| List: | org.freebsd.freebsd-gnome | |
On Sun, 2005-05-01 at 15:53 -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
On Sun, 2005-05-01 at 15:35 -0400, Tom McLaughlin wrote:
Questions about how to open .rar files in file-roller have come up on #FreeBSD-Gnome a few time lately. Would something like this be useful in the FreeBSD Gnome FAQ?
Really? This is the first I've heard it mentioned. Admittedly I haven't been following as closely lately.
Probably just coincidence but I saw the question three times last month. One being me of course.
How do I open .rar files with file-roller?
To open a .rar file with file-roller the rar port (archivers/rar) needs to be installed at run time. The file-roller port does not need to be rebuilt after installing rar.
Note: this is only half the battle. You also need the archivers/unrar port installed as well.
I took a closer look and yup, unrar is needed too. Odd because I had problems with .rar files until rar was installed even with unrar installed.
Further, the rar port cannot be included as a run time dependency for file-roller due to its license which prevents a FreeBSD package from being created. The unrar port has a less restrictive license and can be packaged but it's binary is not used by file-roller for .rar support.
Not only is this correct, but we decided including every possible archiver as a fileroller RUN_DEPENDS was just ridiculous. People would build what they need to handle the files they use. FreeBSD includes a number of reasonable defaults.
Only reason it came up for me is because rar files are still popular on P2P networks. (I swear I wasn't downloading the entire Judas Priest album collection.) Stuff like lha, arj, and arc I haven't seen in ages but I still see rar used a lot.
Joe
Tom
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