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Bug 343201 - Use p7zip for RAR archives?
Use p7zip for RAR archives?
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: file-roller
Classification: Applications
Component: general
2.14.x
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Paolo Bacchilega
file-roller-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2006-05-28 15:44 UTC by Sebastien Bacher
Modified: 2008-06-20 07:24 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.13/2.14


Description Sebastien Bacher 2006-05-28 15:44:55 UTC 
That bug has been opened on https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/file-roller/+bug/44958

"Just an idea:

Given that rar/unrar is non-free,
Doesn't work on amd64 (only i386 to my knowledge),
7-Zip supports current version RAR archives (and unrar-free doesn't)

I think it would make sense to default to using p7zip as the handler for RAR archives internally by default, with the option to use the non-free/official version of RAR if the user wants to.

I find it annoying trying to minipulate RAR archive files in fileroller where the non-free version of RAR isn't available, or requires a 32-bit chroot to operate."
Comment 1 Maciej (Matthew) Piechotka 2006-12-28 19:29:20 UTC 
There is unrar-gpl (which is on GPL ;) - http://home.gna.org/unrar/
However it do not work with fr.
Comment 2 Graeme Humphries 2008-05-19 20:01:30 UTC 
Just wanted to second the idea here, and maybe expand it as I mentioned downstream. It would be nice if we could use 7z for *all* formats it supports, since 7z tends to be more efficient compression-wise, and much faster due to multithreading, than whatever file-roller is using now. Plus, it's LGPL, so licensing shouldn't be an issue.
Comment 3 Paolo Bacchilega 2008-06-19 15:13:32 UTC 
This problem has been fixed in the development version. The fix will be available in the next major software release. Thank you for your bug report.
Comment 4 Graeme Humphries 2008-06-19 16:50:19 UTC 
Great news Paolo, but can you let use know what the resolution has been? Is 7z now the default handler for some archive formats? If so, which ones? And is the development version going to be configurable so that we can set 7z as the default for *all* archives it can handle?

Thanks!
Comment 5 Paolo Bacchilega 2008-06-20 07:24:31 UTC 
7z is used to read and write 7zip, zip, cbr, cbz and self-extracting zip archives.  Furtermore it's used to read cabinet, arj, rar and iso archives.  7z has priority over all the other commands to handle the formats it supports, so there is no need for a configuration.