Re: RAR under linux: any alternative?

[Gabriel]

Steve Kemp wrote: On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 11:35:35PM -0300, Gabriel wrote: yeah, I know that, but I was talking about a program to decompress RAR files... I know I don't really need it, but today a friend sent me a rar file and I needed to tell him to recompress it as zip and send it again... (of course that the first thing he did was talk about the dis-advantages of using GNU/Linux...) So I want it so the next time it happens I won't give anyone the chance to defame GNU =P You can use the 'apt-cache' command to search for programs by keywords. For example running: apt-cache search rar unrar Gives you this in the output: unrar-free - Unarchiver for .rar files unrar - Unarchiver for .rar files (non-free version) Install it as usual: apt-get install unrar-free Then use it with: unrar-free x file.rar (From memory, I haven't used it for a while). You can also search for packages on the Debian website at: http://packages.debian.org/ Steve Thank you so much... I had searched with "apt-cache search rar" but it came up with a lot of packages... Now I found the package unrar-free, but it won't work unless the rar files are from a version <3.0. I also tried with p7zip... the POSIX version of 7-zip... but it doesn't support rar files... If anyone else know about an application that works with rar files =>3.0 I'll be really pleased. I give up. -- Gabriel Parrondo