file-roller won't open rar files

[Ramon de Ruiter]

Rar isn't supported out of the box since it's non-free. But i've installed
unrar-nonfree and i'm pretty sure file-roller should be able to use it to open
.rar files.
But i still get: "Archive type not supported"

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=171798: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=171798

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

right, I've opened a bug upstream about this:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=171798

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

*** Bug 14828 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Steven Wilson (excyber)]

In the meantime, isn't it still a bug to associate file-roller with RAR files?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

fixed upstream

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

This upload fixes the issue:

 file-roller (2.10.2-0ubuntu1) breezy; urgency=low
 .
   * New upstream release:
     - fix unzip for some archives (Ubuntu: #8722).
   * src/fr-command-rar.c:
     - fix handling or rar files (Ubuntu: #8276).

[Mikko Ohtamaa (mikko-red-innovation)]

This bug still appears with file-roller 2.18. and Feisty.

[Mikko Ohtamaa (mikko-red-innovation)]

Ops.. sorry I meant to comment bug:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/file-roller/+bug/24444

With Feisty you get unsupported file format dialog. It's not actual true, you just need to apt-get install unrar.

[rajsh (algebraj-y)]

When ever i open .rar file i get error so kindly provide me a solution or link to download software