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zarco

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Registered: 2019-10-20

Posts: 9

xarchiver not displaying RAR files content

Xarchiver doesn't display files when opening RAR, status bar says "Opening Archive, please wait..."
All operations work using the top menus, but no files to view.
This happens only with RAR, other archive formats show files.
Downgrading to 0.5.4.14-1 is the same.

Name            : xarchiver
Version         : 0.5.4.15-2
Description     : GTK+ frontend to various command line archivers
Architecture    : x86_64
URL             : https://github.com/ib/xarchiver
Licenses        : GPL
Groups          : None
Provides        : None
Depends On      : gtk3
Optional Deps   : arj: ARJ support
                  binutils: deb support
                  bzip2: bzip2 support [installed]
                  cpio: RPM support
                  gzip: gzip support [installed]
                  lha: LHA support
                  lrzip: lrzip support
                  lz4: LZ4 support [installed]
                  lzip: lzip support
                  lzop: LZOP support
                  p7zip: 7z support [installed]
                  tar: tar support [installed]
                  unarj: ARJ support
                  unrar: RAR support [installed]
                  unzip: ZIP support [installed]
                  xdg-utils: recognize more file types to open [installed]
                  xz: xz support [installed]
                  zip: ZIP support
                  zstd: zstd support [installed]

Last edited by zarco (2020-12-12 22:44:57)

Awebb

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Registered: 2010-05-06

Posts: 6,688

Re: xarchiver not displaying RAR files content

Use unrar itself to see what's wrong with either unrar or the file.

zarco

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Registered: 2019-10-20

Posts: 9

Re: xarchiver not displaying RAR files content

Unrar works fine, I can extract all rar files using: command line; file manager "extract here"; and xarchiver menu.
The problem is that xarchiver is not showing any files when opening rars.
I'm able to extract using xarchiver menu but I cannot see the rar contents.

robson75

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From: Poland

Registered: 2020-06-28

Posts: 144

Re: xarchiver not displaying RAR files content

Although I use Xfce4, I have installed an engrampa from the MATE stable, and it works very well.

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zarco

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Registered: 2019-10-20

Posts: 9

Re: xarchiver not displaying RAR files content

I guess I have to use Gnome Archive Manager

robson75

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From: Poland

Registered: 2020-06-28

Posts: 144

Re: xarchiver not displaying RAR files content

I guess I have to use Gnome Archive Manager

MATE the desktop environment, which is the GNOME 2.32 fork.

Last edited by robson75 (2020-12-13 14:10:07)

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zarco

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Registered: 2019-10-20

Posts: 9

Re: xarchiver not displaying RAR files content

Thank you for the suggestion, but Engrampa fork install size is 3 times more than File-Roller.

mozurin

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Registered: 2020-12-13

Posts: 9

Re: xarchiver not displaying RAR files content

Downgrading unrar package to 5.9.4 should help. xarchiver <= 0.5.4.15 does not support unrar 6.x.x.

bright-user

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From: Austria

Registered: 2020-12-13

Posts: 4

Re: xarchiver not displaying RAR files content

I have encounter same problems, using unrar+p7zip with file-roller works for me.