Unrar and SMART_PAR don't work

[rabside]

Hi,
my conf:
Hellanzb.SMART_PAR = True
Hellanzb.SKIP_UNRAR = False
Hellanzb.UNRAR_CMD = "/usr/bin/unrar-free"

When I download something lottaNZB create a subfolder called processed in destination dir whitch contains the par files even if the archive is not corrupte: I've launched "par2 r" and each file is OK.
Moreover the system skip the rar phase

In 0.2 version I haven't had those problems

Thx a lot for you great work!

[Severin H (severinh)]

Hi rabside,

in LottaNZB 0.3 we changed from unrar to unrar-free on Ubuntu, as this one is Open Source and part of the universe repository. However, it doesn't support the latest features of unrar. That might be the reason why extracting the download failed on your machine. You could also have a look at the HellaNZB (Help -> Show message log).or ~/.hellanzb/log.

For the moment, try to change
Hellanzb.UNRAR_CMD = "/usr/bin/unrar-free"
back to
Hellanzb.UNRAR_CMD = "/usr/bin/unrar"

Hope this solves your problem. If there are more people like you complaining that unrar-free doesn't do its job, I might change the dependency back to unrar-free in the next version of LottaNZB.

[Severin H (severinh)]

"back to unrar" of course. ^^

[Hans Spaans (hspaans)]

Since a lot of archives on usenet are RAR3.0 it may be wise to change it back or make it a configuration item.

[sandrshe (sandy95)]

Unraring is was not working for me as well. In my hellanzb.conf, Hellanzb.UNRAR_CMD = "/usr/bin/unrar" was commented out. After putting it back then unraring worked.
I agree, it should be a configuration item if its going to change the hellanzb.conf file.

[Severin H (severinh)]

LottaNZB 0.4.1 has been release on January 27 and will automatically change the UNRAR_CMD option from "unrar-free" to "unrar", since unrar-free isn't capable of extracting a majority of archives on the Usenet.