Date: Sun, 01 May 2005 15:33:41 -0500 From: "Jeremy Messenger" <mezz7@cox.net> To: "Tom McLaughlin" <tmclaugh@sdf.lonestar.org> Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Gnome FAQ: How do I open .rar files with file-roller Message-ID: <op.sp352fl79aq2h7@mezz.mezzweb.com> In-Reply-To: <1114977770.766.6.camel@compass.straycat.dhs.org> References: <1114976101.5448.31.camel@compass.straycat.dhs.org> <1114977190.60197.1.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <1114977770.766.6.camel@compass.straycat.dhs.org>
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On Sun, 01 May 2005 15:02:50 -0500, Tom McLaughlin <tmclaugh@sdf.lonestar.org> wrote: > 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. Right now, I don't have rar installed but only unrar and seem work with rar file. I haven't test rar files that are split, so it might need rar for that. I do remember that unrar doesn't work on everything, but I don't know what about with newer fileroller. >> > 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. I second. I don't have any problem to install (un)rar on my own. > 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. RAR is pretty damn popular in my shoes too. I am using it almost everyday and I have a license for it. Cheers, Mezz >> Joe >> >> > >> > >> > Tom -- mezz7@cox.net - mezz@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD GNOME Team http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/ - gnome@FreeBSD.org
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