ark and rar

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 04:12 +0000, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Patrick O'Callaghan <poc <at> usb.ve> writes:
> > 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?
> 
> Ark has a new plugin-based architecture in KDE 4. This means the code to handle 
> archive formats had to be ported. Unfortunately, not all archive formats got 
> ported to the new plugin system, in particular, the RAR and 7z plugins weren't 
> ready in time for KDE 4.0. RAR support is coming back in KDE 4.1 (through 
> external unrar, so luckily there's no code we can't ship inside kdeutils 
> itself).

Thanks for the update.

poc