File Roller extracting rar archives

[ben miller]

On Sunday 20 November 2005 5:33 pm, ulrich steffens wrote:
> Am Freitag, den 18.11.2005, 01:19 +0200 schrieb Panos Laganakos:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I've been trying to extract some .rar archives, but it seems that the
> > build included with ubuntu breezy won't let me.
> >
> > Is it the fact that .rar is proprietary(?) format?
> >
> > Any way to activate .rar archive extraction in file roller or will i
> > have to build FR from source?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > p.s. The archives extract fine under windows, so its not that they're
> > damaged.
>
> you just have to install unrar-nonfree.
>
> take a look at
> http://help.ubuntu.com/starterguide/C/ch02.html#addinguniverse
> follow the instructions to enable the extra repositories.
> then in synaptic hit reload and search for unrar.
> mark it, apply, done. file roller now handles rar-files


Something I've learned recently is that both rar and unrar need to be 
installed for unrar to work properly. 

== Ben