File Roller extracting rar archives

[ulrich steffens]

Am Sonntag, den 20.11.2005, 20:02 -0600 schrieb 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
> 
well, thats strange, cause i'm using unrar-nonfree ONLY and it just
works the way it should be. what i've learnd is that unrar-free couldn't
handle any of the archives i had, whereas the nonfree version could
handle them all well. 

 - ulrich