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I haven't visited this forum for 2 years I think, a testament to Arch's stability! I'm by no means an advanced user but I like Arch's cutting edge, rolling release system and I want to stick with Arch come what may.
With that said, following a power outage during a system upgrade, I had to install a new Arch system since my old one suddenly started behaving very strangely. I had Wine installed on that system and I don't recall any problems with getting Winrar to work.
Now, however, I am struggling to get Winrar to install, never mind run. I have installed 7zip as a test and that worked without a hitch but Winrar is proving to be very stubborn. I've tried installing all optional dependencies for Wine, I've tried uninstalling (pacman -Rsc) and reinstalling but to no avail.
I've searched online for a solution but I haven't managed to find anything so I have decided to turn to the community here in a bid to solve my problem.
TL;DR Why can't I install Winrar with Wine on a new 64x Arch system?
FYI I'm running it on VMWare.
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Did you check the AppDB? https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager. … on&iId=391
It seems the latest version might have some issues.
On a side-note, why would you want to use WinRAR at all?
Last edited by Omar007 (2017-02-12 13:31:49)
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Did you check the AppDB? https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager. … on&iId=391
It seems the 32-bit version might have some issues.On a side-note, why would you want to use WinRAR at all?
Crud, no I hadn't seen that.
I like the functionality of Winrar which I haven't been able to find duplicated in other, native Linux apps. It's very versatile which I find helpful.
I've tried using a few of the suggested apps but they all leave something wanting so about a year or so ago I began using Winrar via Wine.
It still works on my broken system, when I manage to login. Just can't get it to work on the new one and I can't understand why, both systems are 64 bit...
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Last edited by infinarchy (2017-11-04 21:39:58)
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I used to use Ark when I ran a KDE desktop environment, just installed it again (currently using XFCE because it's less resource intensive) and it seems Ark can't zip in rar format :\
Thanks for suggesting it tho, I would prefer to use a native app rather than clunk up my system with Wine and windows programmes.
I'm hopeless with terminal commands so I prefer a gui.
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Ark can create files, but you need to have rar installed. Unrar only allows opening archives (hence, the un- prefix).
Ark has really improved a lot lately, but the compression options are still a bit lacking.
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Last edited by infinarchy (2017-11-04 21:38:40)
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ArchieGolightly wrote:and it seems Ark can't zip in rar format :\
Why do you want to create rar archives on a Linux machine? For the warez? Use tar or zip instead.
The "official" WinRAR experience for Linux is called rar - get used to it.
ArchieGolightly wrote:I'm hopeless with terminal commands so I prefer a gui.
Then, Arch Linux isn't the right thing for you.
You're not even worthy of a snarky comment.
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Last edited by infinarchy (2017-11-04 21:38:16)
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