Extract ".rar" file -

["Germán A. Racca"]

On 04/16/2013 05:33 PM, Kevin Martin wrote:
> On 04/16/13 14:41, Suvayu Ali wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 01:47:28PM -0400, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote:
>>>
>>> How do I extract "tomato-E3000USB-1.28.9054MIPSR2-beta-Ext.rar" ?
>>>
>>> The instructions said to "yum install p7zip" and I did that, but finding the
>>> command to make it happen eludes me.
>>
>> The command is 7za, see man 7za.  But that won't help you; at least the
>> man page does not list as a supported archive type.  As mentioned by
>> others, try unrar; see man unrar for details.
>>
>
> 7zip's website says that it supports the RAR format on Linux, but only for extracting.  You *should* be able to extract with
> p7zip-plugins rpm installed and then use "7z x file.rar" (note, *not* 7za x file.rar) but for some reason the folks that built the
> p7zip-plugins rpm didn't compile the 7z.so with the rar format plugin in it.  FWIW, I grabbed the 9.20.1 source code for 7zip, built
> it in about 5 minutes, and can use the 7z that built from there with for extracting rar archives  with no problem so I'm not sure
> why the Fedora folks don't build 7z with the needed plugins in 7z.so.
>
> Kevin

"for some reason the folks that built the p7zip-plugins rpm didn't 
compile the 7z.so with the rar format plugin in it"

p7zip packagers explain that in the spec file:

"RAR sources removed since their license is incompatible with the LGPL"

Germán.


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Germán A. Racca
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