unrar-free and multirar files

[VinylxScratches]

I don't think unrar-free works... I'm trying to unrar a .rar file with multiple parts.

deb:/home/path/recent_downloads# sudo unrar-free e --password dt.session-01.part1.rar

unrar 0.0.1  Copyright (C) 2004  Ben Asselstine, Jeroen Dekkers


Extracting from /mnt/hd1/share/dt.session-01.part1.rar

All OK

And that's it. I don't see the extraction anywhere... any ideas? I can only do this via command line.

 

[VinylxScratches]

Well, I downlaoded the cli tool from winrar and that works... not sure how to install it though, I just run it from my home dir.

 

[AnonymouseUser]

What distro and did you install from their repo?

This is the unrar in Mandriva's repo:

unrar

UNRAR 3.80 freeware Copyright (c) 1993-2008 Alexander Roshal

Homepage

 

[VinylxScratches]

Debian. I installed unrar-free from the repo, ti doesn't unarchive it seems... so I went on winrar.com and got their tool and it works, I just don't know how to integrate it into debian so I can run it anywhere.

 

[AnonymouseUser]

Is there any particular reason you can't install unrar (non-free)? unrar-free doesn't handle newer archives.

Can't handle some archives in the RAR 3.0 format, only the non-free "unrar" package can do that.

 

[VinylxScratches]

Kind of embarrasing but what would be the apt-get install command to get it? apt-get install unrar-nonfree doesn't work.

 

[VinylxScratches]

Ok, i dropped these into my sources.list restarted and it still doesn't pick up.

deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free

 

[MrColin]

Ok, i dropped these into my sources.list restarted and it still doesn't pick up.

deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free

try "aptitude search rar" it should show up. (don't forget to run "apt-get update" after changing your sources.list.

 

[Nothinman]

try "aptitude search rar" it should show up. (don't forget to run "apt-get update" after changing your sources.list.

If you're going to search with aptitude you need to update it as well. In fact, it makes more sense to solely use aptitude, just start it like 'aptitude -u' and use / to search in the package list.

 

[imported_brandon]

I'd recommend giving OpenSUSE's build service a shot. They have packages for many different distros.

http://software.opensuse.org/search

Edit: Looks like they didn't have anything pertinent to unrar for Debian, but it's still a handy site to keep around.

 

[Nothinman]

I'd recommend giving OpenSUSE's build service a shot. They have packages for many different distros.

http://software.opensuse.org/search

Edit: Looks like they didn't have anything pertinent to unrar for Debian, but it's still a handy site to keep around.

I would be very leery of packages built for Debian or Ubuntu by OpenSuSE developers.

 

[imported_brandon]

According to what I read, OpenSUSE's buildservice can also be used as a repository for software that isn't necessarily built by SUSE developers, but I see your point. I only use OpenSUSE, but I could test-drive some of those buildservice packages in a Debian VM.

 

[Nothinman]

According to what I read, OpenSUSE's buildservice can also be used as a repository for software that isn't necessarily built by SUSE developers, but I see your point. I only use OpenSUSE, but I could test-drive some of those buildservice packages in a Debian VM.

Debian's main selling point to me is it's package quality and the cohesive system they produce. So relying on even a few 3rd party repositories potentially kills that and isn't something I'm willing to do except in extreme circumstances. The only non-official repo I have is from http://www.debian-multimedia.org which is maintained by a DD as well so I know the package quality meets the normal Debian standards.