ark and rar

[Christopher L Tubbs II]

Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 15:04 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>> In F8 I used to use Ark (KDE utility) to unpack .rar files, but in F9 it
>> no longer works. Ark doesn't recognize .rar although I installed the
>> unrar package. Am I missing something?
> 
> .rar (or at least the most popular and current version of rar) is
> proprietary technology and non-free.  It cannot be shipped in Fedora.
> 
> 

Try file-roller. I think I read that it recognizes rar after unrar is 
installed. (BTW, rpm.livna.org has unrar in it's repo, and now has a 
release for F9, but you have to find livna-release in the repository, 
because the main page doesn't have a link yet).

Rainman

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