unrar for dapper

[ulrich steffens]

Am Montag, den 06.02.2006, 12:35 -0500 schrieb Lee Revell:
> On Mon, 2006-02-06 at 13:09 +0100, ulrich steffens wrote:
> > hmm, i'm a little confused here... free, nonfree, non-nonfree... what?
> > 
> 
> Yes exactly.  There used to only be ONE package, unrar, that did what I
> needed.  Now it's a confusing mess.
> 
> Anyway, I confused nonfree for free.
> 
> > unrar-free 
> > couldn't do anything for me so far. not one single rar-file i tried
> > could be processed. pretty useless, all in all.
> > 
> 
> Yes, exactly.
> 
> > unrar-nonfree 
> > could handle every rar file so far, no matter if single- or multifile.
> > in dapper its gone, but the deb from breezy works fine for me. 
> > maybe the archive you tried uses some extras that are not supported by
> > unrar-nonfree? in my experience though, i hadn't had a file that
> > couldn't be processed.
> > 
> 
> Where do I get it for Dapper?!?!?!?!?
> 
> # apt-get install unrar-nonfree
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> Package unrar-nonfree is not available, but is referred to by another
> package.
> This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
> is only available from another source
> E: Package unrar-nonfree has no installation candidate
> 
> 
> > i use unrar-nonfree either with file-roller through right-click in
> > nautilus the .rar file and > extract here, or in a terminal
> >         unrar x filetoextract.rar
> > 
> > oh, i use unrar-nonfree without rar installed. 
> 
> 
> Arrgh, this is such a f**cking pain - I just want to uncompess a
> f**cking RAR archive, it takes 2 seconds on Windows...  why can't this
> Just Work again?
> 
> Lee
> 
> 
heheh

no need to panic, head over to
http://packages.ubuntu.com/breezy/utils/unrar-nonfree
download the deb and install it with 'sudo dpkg -i xyz.deb'
works pretty sweet. 

why, on the other hand, the nonfree version was dropped would be
interesting to know. i could imagine it's a license issue? 

ulrich