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gaah

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2003-09-12

Posts: 124

winrar clone?

I'm looking for (if there is one) a software that works like winrar, meaning gui software that can pack/unpack zip/rar/arj/tar aso?

Pajaro

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Registered: 2004-04-21

Posts: 884

Re: winrar clone?

file-roller is very similar to winrar.

you'll have to install rar (pacman -S rar) in order to extract rar files

colnago

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From: Victoria, BC

Registered: 2004-03-25

Posts: 438

Re: winrar clone?

Konqueror does most of this now in co-operation with ark, no need for add-ons.

eNTi

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Registered: 2006-04-30

Posts: 109

Re: winrar clone?

sorry to revive that old post, but i really would like to know, how i can get a rar package.

The_Nerd

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From: Syracuse, NY / Baltimore, MD

Registered: 2005-11-30

Posts: 134

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Re: winrar clone?

The "rar" package has been removed due to licensing issues if I remember correctly.

There is no longer a "rar" pacakge to make .rar archives then (at least to my knowledge) but the "unrar" package should extract any .rar archives you have!

Unrar and file-roller works just as well, if not better than winrar on the pc, so give it a go.

phrakture

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From: behind you

Registered: 2003-10-29

Posts: 7,879

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Re: winrar clone?

Xarchiver is also a decent archive front end

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Mefju

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From: Poland

Registered: 2006-07-12

Posts: 104

Re: winrar clone?

Just do

 pacman -S unrar 

Snowman

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From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

Posts: 5,212

Re: winrar clone?

xarchive is another front-end. Note that it's not a typo: xarchive and xarchiver are two different front-ends.

There's also a rar PKGBUILD in AUR.

test1000

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Registered: 2005-04-03

Posts: 834

Re: winrar clone?

and winrar works in wine (Me would like to get the handy unpacking features of winrar back when one would right click a file(s) in windows though...)

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phrakture

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Re: winrar clone?

and winrar works in wine (Me would like to get the handy unpacking features of winrar back when one would right click a file(s) in windows though...)

As for win32 based apps, winrar is not only gross with it's "register me now!" stuff, it's also non-free (as in speech).  There are much better alternatives, namely: http://www.7-zip.org/

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chrismortimore

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From: Edinburgh, UK

Registered: 2006-07-15

Posts: 655

Re: winrar clone?

As for win32 based apps, winrar is not only gross with it's "register me now!" stuff, it's also non-free (as in speech).  There are much better alternatives, namely: http://www.7-zip.org/

Huzzah! Another 7 zip user!

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eNTi

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Registered: 2006-04-30

Posts: 109

Re: winrar clone?

i don't really care for alternatives or any other mumbojumbo. rar is just widely used and if you are working cross-platform or want to use uploadtemple.com from time to time, it's still a good thing to have. there's packages on other distros and it seems i'll have to create one on my own for archlinux. unrar works just fine, despite the fact, that it doesn't work with konqueror by default. kio_rar is in unsupported, well, i can build it myself too.

thx for your input.

test1000

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Registered: 2005-04-03

Posts: 834

Re: winrar clone?

i like your logo.

phrakture: yeah tried 7zip, can't remember the "register me now" msg's but that might have been because i cracked it... I still prefferred winrar because of it's handy right click a file(s) and be able to access lots of cool unpacking options feature. Unlike with file-roller you have to open each file separately.

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phrakture

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Re: winrar clone?

I still prefferred winrar because of it's handy right click a file(s) and be able to access lots of cool unpacking options feature.

7 zip does the same.

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pelle.k

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From: Åre, Sweden (EU)

Registered: 2006-04-30

Posts: 667

Re: winrar clone?

All the three big DE:s have got right click options with rar and zip files on a default install with unzip and unrar if i'm not mistaken. Like extract here, or open with * manager (to access all these other "cool" features)
pacman -S unzip unrar ?!
correct me if i'm wrong.

[edit] i just unpacked a multi-part rar archive with file roller. I also unpacked two archives at once. No problemos...[/edit]

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test1000

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Registered: 2005-04-03

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Re: winrar clone?

phrakture: yes as i recall it does, but there was 2 features 7zip didn't have that winrar did have which i wanted. I'm still talking about the right click menu on files here. Don't ask me which features this was because it was years since i last used windows and frankly i'm a freak for even remembering this i believe 

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Encho

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Registered: 2010-09-12

Posts: 16

Re: winrar clone?

pacman -S unzip unrar  - is not working for me. I can't find any program that does it all (zip, unzip, extract, compress etc.) and is easy to use. Any suggestions?

Mr.Elendig

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Registered: 2004-11-07

Posts: 4,092

Re: winrar clone?

pacman -S unzip unrar  - is not working for me. I can't find any program that does it all (zip, unzip, extract, compress etc.) and is easy to use. Any suggestions?

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Inxsible

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Registered: 2008-06-09

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Re: winrar clone?

whoa whoa !!

this thread is more than 4 years old.

Encho, please do not necrobump old threads. Read this: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … Bumping.27

Closing....

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