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Bug 437122 - Use PackageKit to install unrar automatically
Use PackageKit to install unrar automatically
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: evince
Classification: Core
Component: backends
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Evince Maintainers
Evince Maintainers
Depends on: 720742
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2007-05-09 11:37 UTC by Bastien Nocera
Modified: 2017-03-25 16:58 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
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Description Bastien Nocera 2007-05-09 11:37:16 UTC 
Unrarlib is GPL, and could be used to unpack files instead of unrar:
http://www.unrarlib.org/
Comment 1 Nickolay V. Shmyrev 2007-05-09 20:58:45 UTC 
It would be nice.
Comment 2 Delance 2009-11-21 13:54:02 UTC 
I reported a bug in:

Karmic Evince crash on opening cbr file - should ask to install unrar
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/480905


Instead of asking for installation of unrar, Evince crash asking a bug report.
Before I found the source of crash, I advised to others Comix as a workaround.
Comment 3 Juanjo Marín 2009-12-06 00:50:33 UTC 
Hi, by now Evince relies on third parties applications for managing compressed files. For rar files, evince works with (nonfree-)unrar (the freeware application from RARLABS) and free-unrar (the free software application from GNA! that uses Unrarlib).

I don't think that is good idea to have code on Evince for decompressing rar files, it is better to have this code con gio/gvfs (they have code for zip files). Maybe is a good idea to open a new bug report for this feature on gio :)

Delance: Feel free to open a bug report if you problem persists or find a new one. I'm interested to fix problems on the comics backend.
Comment 4 Bastien Nocera 2009-12-07 11:10:10 UTC 
unrarlib doesn't support newer versions of the rar spec, so it could cause regressions. Asking to install unrar or rar is probably a better idea.
Comment 5 Bastien Nocera 2017-03-17 17:12:41 UTC 
This would be obsoleted by the patches in bug 720742, meaning we don't ever need to use unrar.
Comment 6 Bastien Nocera 2017-03-25 16:58:24 UTC 
RAR support is now builtin through unarr.