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ZenMystic

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[solved] winrar?

hi

any suggestions for a winrar type app? I've installed Arch with LXDE

EDIT: also suggestion for simple mp3 player please

Last edited by ZenMystic (2008-08-27 02:57:06)

skottish

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Re: [solved] winrar?

unrar?

finferflu

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Re: [solved] winrar?

What do you define as simple? XMMS2?

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SiD

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Re: [solved] winrar?

xarchiver or file-roller, both are frontends for all the commandline tools like tar, unrar, zip, unzip, ect.

for mp3:
maybe mpd + sonata
or audacious ?

Last edited by SiD (2008-08-26 19:35:05)

ZenMystic

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Re: [solved] winrar?

Hi

I forgot to mention NOT commandline, I can never rember all those switches and options.
@ finfurflu, by simple I mean something I can use without reading man pages etc.

Thanks all for your suggestions, I'll give them a trial.

daf666

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Re: [solved] winrar?

WinRAR works perfectly under wine, and is better than any alternative, IMHO.

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Re: [solved] winrar?

Unrar is good for CLI.
File-Roller is good for GUI.

I personall use exaile for music

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ZenMystic

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Re: [solved] winrar?

OK thanks for all your comments, those should keep me busy for a while

Army

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Re: [solved] winrar?

If you want to create a rar file, install rar-beta from AUR. I recommend xarchiver, the LXDE guys do as well and it works pretty nice here on LXDE No, I don't miss Ark from KDE

Inxsible

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Re: [solved] winrar?

Squeeze is yet another GUI for archiving.

music player

Standalone - cplay !!! - its amazing- i love the simplicity

client-server - xmms2+client OR mpd+client

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ZenMystic

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Re: [solved] winrar?

Thank you all for the suggestions. Over the comming days I look forward to having  fun [hopefully] following up on your suggestions.

sevenfourk

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Re: [solved] winrar?

I think ZenMystic meant for easy player mocp

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Re: [solved] winrar?

I use Xarchiver because it's very simple and seems to be the most efficient/fast archiver manager. It's just a GTK front-end to the various zip, rar, gzip, etc, utilities.

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Army

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Re: [solved] winrar?

The cool thing about xarchiver is, that it shows you the command that's being used, so you get used to them and maybe one day you won't need the frontend anymore

sevenfourk

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Re: [solved] winrar?

Army, damn nice point I'm on your side.

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