searching for Fedora-compliant packages of rar and unrar

[Fernando Lozano]

Hi,

It's unusual because rar and its file format are closed (maybe 
patented). The vendor provides an open source unrar utility, and that's it.

There are MUCH BETTER options, like 7-zip.org (p7zip is part of Fedora 
and is part of RHEL or can be added through EPEL, and is supported by 
File-Roller and Nautilus). Better compression rate, speedier, all open 
source. The windows GUI version is also much better than WinRAR.

So it's enough for me to have an unrar to open files in this format by 
people who don't know there's better alternatives.


[]s, Fernando Lozano

> On Thu, 5 Jul 2012, Aaron Konstam wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 2012-07-05 at 14:15 -0400, Max Pyziur wrote:
>>> Greetings,
>>>
>>> I'm searching for Fedora-compliant packages of rar and unrar. I know 
>>> that
>>> they can be found at Repoforge (http://repoforge.org/). However, 
>>> they are
>>> for CentOS and RHEL.
>>>
>>> Are there any repos where rpm packages of rar/unrar that can be 
>>> found and
>>> useable on Fedora 17?
>>>
>>> Much thanks.
>>>
>>> Max Pyziur
>>> pyz at brama.com
>>>
>>
>> unrar is available in rpmfusion-nonfree-updates. But no rar. Seems
>> either unfair or unsymmetrical.
>
> Or even unusual.
>
> Much thanks for all of the replies.
>
> MP
> pyz at brama.com