Ark unar (RARV3) integration not working in Toutatis

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prvteprts

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Can somebody confirm this?

In Dagda, I used Ark as my frontend to extract RARV3 files, primarily multi-part archives. Ark integration for unar does not work anymore in my Toutatis installation, but I can still run unar from the terminal to extract the same files.

I'd like to know if there are any workarounds. Thanks!

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I didn't think there were any GUI methods for unar. I've always used the terminal so nothing has changed for me. :)

Michał Masłowski

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File Roller supports unar since GNOME 3.8, Ark doesn't while it has
patches available [0][1]. That patch is used in Parabola and maybe
could be added to Trisquel. These require not having unrar installed
(or unar wrapper like ununrar).

I don't want to learn another command line interface for each archive
format, so I use bsdtar which supports RAR with new enough libarchive.
(No multivolume nor encrypted archives.)

[0] https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=283134
[1] https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/106294/

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The only option I am aware of is to use lsar/unar commands from Terminal. I tried Ark and some scripts, including Masłowski's python script called Ununrar, but none of them really worked for me, so I went ahead and developed a Nautilus script for my own purposes, but unfortunately I abandoned this project because of the focus on other things.

Here are some screenshots if you're interested:

unarar-1.png unarar-2.png unarar-3.png unarar-4.png
akirashinigami

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What sort of desktop setup are you using there?

mYself
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Sorry for my late reply. It's Trisquel 4.1 with Gnome2 desktop, if that's what you'd like to know.

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hey mYself,

Any chance you could share the script that you made? I would like to be able to use unar with the "right click". I have a lot of files (multi part files) that can only be extracted with unar, and I don't really like the idea of having to write command line for each one (even because they have BIG filenames, so it really is a pain in the head to get it right for each and every one.)

Thanks in advance ;)

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Ubuntu 13.10 will include Gnome 3.8 applications/libraries and version 1.7 of unar is in the repos.

Does File Roller in Gnome 3.8 list unar as a dependency or is it like the unrar and unrar-free packages that File Roller will use if installed? If the unrar-free and unar packages are installed, does File Roller put a preference for unar?

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Michał Masłowski

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> If the unrar-free and unar packages are installed, does
> File Roller put a preference for unar?

It prefers unrar-free or another other package chosen to provide
/usr/bin/unrar. It's not an optimal solution on free systems.