Archive manager doesn't support RAR, not even for un-archiving

[Uqbar]

Binary package hint: file-roller

Despite being a very popular archive/compression format, Archive Manager 2.24.1 doesn't support RAR.
At least an option to install p7zip and its RAR module for un-archiving would be nice.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/file-roller
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: file-roller 2.24.1-0ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 LC_COLLATE=C
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: file-roller
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-11-generic x86_64

[Uqbar (uqbar)]

BTW, there is also unrar-free!

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please answer these questions:

 * Is this reproducible?
 * If so, what specific steps should we take to recreate this bug?
 * Could you add a rar example to the bug?

 This will help us to find and resolve the problem.

[Uqbar (uqbar)]

My problem was related to a series of broken RAR archives which cannot be opened with either the command line tools or the Windows tools.
The "bug" can be closed.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

closing the bug

[fabrizio joshua (tadema)]

I resolve the problem with p7zip upgrade Thanks for the Hint
Joshua

[Andrea Denzler (andreaplanet)]

- Ubuntu 9.10 32 bit
- RAR file created with WinRAR 3.90 under Windows XP

Error message Archive Type is not supported. I created different RAR files, always the same result, and was able to uncompress them with unrar 3.90 (downloaded at rarlabs.com). So the archive was not corrupted.

[Andrea Denzler (andreaplanet)]

PS.: Tested with File Roller 2.28.1 under Ubuntu 9.10 default installation

[jaimarbusto (jaimarbusto-gmail)]

sudo apt-get install arj cabextract cpio lha nomarch pax rar unrar unzip zip

usar
/usr/bin/unrar-nonfree
para proporcionar /usr/bin/unrar (unrar) en modo automático

[jaimarbusto (jaimarbusto-gmail)]

sudo apt-get install arj cabextract cpio lha nomarch pax rar unrar unzip zip

usar
/usr/bin/unrar-nonfree
para proporcionar /usr/bin/unrar (unrar) en modo automático

then you discharge, install ubuntu else !
non is command line, if you wrote: /usr/bin/unrar-nonfree
then in folder,click to "open" with "Gestor de archivadores" as zip.

Enjoy
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Bogota colombia

[Benjamin Drung (bdrung)]

file-roller supports extracting RAR files through the unar package since Ubuntu 12.10. It also can use rar or unrar from the rar and unrar packages. Therefore I mark this bug as fixed.