engrampa no longer opens rar files

[Robert Pearson]

engrampa in 18.04, 18.10, 19.04, and 19.10 could read .rar files. in 20.04.3 it gives "Archive type not supported." Broken code since 18.04.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: engrampa 1.24.0-2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.11.0-37.41~20.04.2-generic 5.11.22
Uname: Linux 5.11.0-37-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.20
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
CurrentDesktop: MATE
Date: Wed Oct 13 18:51:10 2021
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/engrampa
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: engrampa
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Norbert (nrbrtx)]

Details needed. RAR is a plugin, see package information https://packages.ubuntu.com/focal/engrampa .

What do you have for
```
apt-cache policy rar unrar unrar-free p7zip-rar
```

command?

[Robert Pearson (rpearsonii)]

Norbert

rar:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 2:5.5.0-1build1
  Version table:
     2:5.5.0-1build1 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/multiverse amd64 Packages
unrar:
  Installed: 1:5.6.6-2build1
  Candidate: 1:5.6.6-2build1
  Version table:
 *** 1:5.6.6-2build1 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/multiverse amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
unrar-free:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 1:0.0.1+cvs20140707-4
  Version table:
     1:0.0.1+cvs20140707-4 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/universe amd64 Packages
p7zip-rar:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 16.02-3build1
  Version table:
     16.02-3build1 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/multiverse amd64 Packages

[Norbert (nrbrtx)]

So your system misses RAR packages which marked as Suggests for Engrampa. Install them by

```
sudo apt-get install rar p7zip-rar
```

and retry.

[Robert Pearson (rpearsonii)]

Thank you for responding. Installed p7zip-rar. Had previously installed rar
but installed it again.

Engrampa now can open an .rar file. Am not looking to see if I have a .7zip
file to try.

Again, thank you for responding! (You are the 5th to do so in 3 years!)

Robert Pearson

On Sat, Oct 16, 2021 at 2:50 AM Norbert <email address hidden> wrote:

> So your system misses RAR packages which marked as Suggests for
> Engrampa. Install them by
>
> ```
> sudo apt-get install rar p7zip-rar
> ```
>
> and retry.
>
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> report.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1947055
>
> Title:
> engrampa no longer opens rar files
>
> Status in engrampa package in Ubuntu:
> Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> engrampa in 18.04, 18.10, 19.04, and 19.10 could read .rar files. in
> 20.04.3 it gives "Archive type not supported." Broken code since
> 18.04.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
> Package: engrampa 1.24.0-2
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.11.0-37.41~20.04.2-generic 5.11.22
> Uname: Linux 5.11.0-37-generic x86_64
> ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.20
> Architecture: amd64
> CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
> CurrentDesktop: MATE
> Date: Wed Oct 13 18:51:10 2021
> ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/engrampa
> ProcEnviron:
> LANGUAGE=en_US
> PATH=(custom, no user)
> XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> SourcePackage: engrampa
> UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
>
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>

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