In F8 I used to use Ark (KDE utility) to unpack .rar files, but in F9 it no longer works. Ark doesn't recognize .rar although I installed the unrar package. Am I missing something?
poc
On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 15:04 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
In F8 I used to use Ark (KDE utility) to unpack .rar files, but in F9 it no longer works. Ark doesn't recognize .rar although I installed the unrar package. Am I missing something?
.rar (or at least the most popular and current version of rar) is proprietary technology and non-free. It cannot be shipped in Fedora.
On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 15:52 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 15:04 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
In F8 I used to use Ark (KDE utility) to unpack .rar files, but in F9 it no longer works. Ark doesn't recognize .rar although I installed the unrar package. Am I missing something?
.rar (or at least the most popular and current version of rar) is proprietary technology and non-free. It cannot be shipped in Fedora.
I repeat: I installed the unrar package (from Livna as it happens). Ark used to work with .rar files on F8 and now it doesn't. I'm assuming that Ark used the unrar package but of course maybe it used to have its own internal implementation and this has now been withdrawn because of licensing, I don't know.
The only thing I ever used Ark for was .rar as I can handle tar, tgz, zip, gzip, bzip etc. on my own.
poc
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 15:52 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 15:04 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
In F8 I used to use Ark (KDE utility) to unpack .rar files, but in F9 it no longer works. Ark doesn't recognize .rar although I installed the unrar package. Am I missing something?
.rar (or at least the most popular and current version of rar) is proprietary technology and non-free. It cannot be shipped in Fedora.
I repeat: I installed the unrar package (from Livna as it happens). Ark used to work with .rar files on F8 and now it doesn't. I'm assuming that Ark used the unrar package but of course maybe it used to have its own internal implementation and this has now been withdrawn because of licensing, I don't know.
The only thing I ever used Ark for was .rar as I can handle tar, tgz, zip, gzip, bzip etc. on my own.
poc
You can install unrar and handle it on your own, right?
On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 22:09 -0400, Neal Becker wrote:
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 15:52 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 15:04 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
In F8 I used to use Ark (KDE utility) to unpack .rar files, but in F9 it no longer works. Ark doesn't recognize .rar although I installed the unrar package. Am I missing something?
.rar (or at least the most popular and current version of rar) is proprietary technology and non-free. It cannot be shipped in Fedora.
I repeat: I installed the unrar package (from Livna as it happens). Ark used to work with .rar files on F8 and now it doesn't. I'm assuming that Ark used the unrar package but of course maybe it used to have its own internal implementation and this has now been withdrawn because of licensing, I don't know.
The only thing I ever used Ark for was .rar as I can handle tar, tgz, zip, gzip, bzip etc. on my own.
poc
You can install unrar and handle it on your own, right?
As I've already said (twice!) I did install unrar. I'm simply stating that there's a bug in Ark.
poc
Jesse Keating wrote:
On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 15:04 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
In F8 I used to use Ark (KDE utility) to unpack .rar files, but in F9 it no longer works. Ark doesn't recognize .rar although I installed the unrar package. Am I missing something?
.rar (or at least the most popular and current version of rar) is proprietary technology and non-free. It cannot be shipped in Fedora.
Try file-roller. I think I read that it recognizes rar after unrar is installed. (BTW, rpm.livna.org has unrar in it's repo, and now has a release for F9, but you have to find livna-release in the repository, because the main page doesn't have a link yet).
Rainman
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 3:34 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan poc@usb.ve wrote:
In F8 I used to use Ark (KDE utility) to unpack .rar files, but in F9 it no longer works. Ark doesn't recognize .rar although I installed the unrar package. Am I missing something?
Does Ark have a configuration dialog where you can assign helper utilities? Maybe that association with the external tool got lost in the upgrade.
/Mike
On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 16:05 -0400, Michael Wiktowy wrote:
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 3:34 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan poc@usb.ve wrote:
In F8 I used to use Ark (KDE utility) to unpack .rar files, but in F9 it no longer works. Ark doesn't recognize .rar although I installed the unrar package. Am I missing something?
Does Ark have a configuration dialog where you can assign helper utilities? Maybe that association with the external tool got lost in the upgrade.
The only config options are for things like hotkeys, nothing useful.
poc
On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 16:05 -0400, Michael Wiktowy wrote:
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 3:34 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan poc@usb.ve wrote:
In F8 I used to use Ark (KDE utility) to unpack .rar files, but in F9 it no longer works. Ark doesn't recognize .rar although I installed the unrar package. Am I missing something?
Does Ark have a configuration dialog where you can assign helper utilities? Maybe that association with the external tool got lost in the upgrade.
No, just for assigning hotkeys and so on.
poc
Michael Wiktowy wrote:
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 3:34 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan poc@usb.ve wrote:
In F8 I used to use Ark (KDE utility) to unpack .rar files, but in F9 it no longer works. Ark doesn't recognize .rar although I installed the unrar package. Am I missing something?
Does Ark have a configuration dialog where you can assign helper utilities? Maybe that association with the external tool got lost in the upgrade.
That _should_ be a global setting; look to whatever KDE itself has for configuration now.
On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 06:51 +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
Michael Wiktowy wrote:
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 3:34 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan poc@usb.ve wrote:
In F8 I used to use Ark (KDE utility) to unpack .rar files, but in F9 it no longer works. Ark doesn't recognize .rar although I installed the unrar package. Am I missing something?
Does Ark have a configuration dialog where you can assign helper utilities? Maybe that association with the external tool got lost in the upgrade.
That _should_ be a global setting; look to whatever KDE itself has for configuration now.
Right now in KDE 4.0.3 there's reduced funcionality in the Settings dialogue. A lot of stuff seems to be absent or minimal. I assume it will improve in later versions.
poc
On Monday 12 May 2008 02:34:33 pm Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
In F8 I used to use Ark (KDE utility) to unpack .rar files, but in F9 it no longer works. Ark doesn't recognize .rar although I installed the unrar package. Am I missing something?
Install it ( the 'unrar' pkg) from livna.
best regards
Teo Fonrouge
On Monday 12 May 2008 03:38:12 pm Teo Fonrouge wrote:
On Monday 12 May 2008 02:34:33 pm Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
In F8 I used to use Ark (KDE utility) to unpack .rar files, but in F9 it no longer works. Ark doesn't recognize .rar although I installed the unrar package. Am I missing something?
Install it ( the 'unrar' pkg) from livna.
Sorry, wrong answer.
On Monday 12 May 2008 02:34:33 pm Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
In F8 I used to use Ark (KDE utility) to unpack .rar files, but in F9 it no longer works. Ark doesn't recognize .rar although I installed the unrar package. Am I missing something?
Seems that this is a known issue in ark's KDE 4 as you can see in this Ubuntu list:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kdeutils-kde4/+bug/184774
best regards
Teo Fonrouge
On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 16:40 -0500, Teo Fonrouge wrote:
On Monday 12 May 2008 02:34:33 pm Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
In F8 I used to use Ark (KDE utility) to unpack .rar files, but in F9 it no longer works. Ark doesn't recognize .rar although I installed the unrar package. Am I missing something?
Seems that this is a known issue in ark's KDE 4 as you can see in this Ubuntu list:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kdeutils-kde4/+bug/184774
Thanks, that was helpful. Following a hint in the bug report, I tried File Roller and it worked.
poc
Patrick O'Callaghan <poc <at> usb.ve> writes:
In F8 I used to use Ark (KDE utility) to unpack .rar files, but in F9 it no longer works. Ark doesn't recognize .rar although I installed the unrar package. Am I missing something?
Ark has a new plugin-based architecture in KDE 4. This means the code to handle archive formats had to be ported. Unfortunately, not all archive formats got ported to the new plugin system, in particular, the RAR and 7z plugins weren't ready in time for KDE 4.0. RAR support is coming back in KDE 4.1 (through external unrar, so luckily there's no code we can't ship inside kdeutils itself).
Kevin Kofler
On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 04:12 +0000, Kevin Kofler wrote:
Patrick O'Callaghan <poc <at> usb.ve> writes:
In F8 I used to use Ark (KDE utility) to unpack .rar files, but in F9 it no longer works. Ark doesn't recognize .rar although I installed the unrar package. Am I missing something?
Ark has a new plugin-based architecture in KDE 4. This means the code to handle archive formats had to be ported. Unfortunately, not all archive formats got ported to the new plugin system, in particular, the RAR and 7z plugins weren't ready in time for KDE 4.0. RAR support is coming back in KDE 4.1 (through external unrar, so luckily there's no code we can't ship inside kdeutils itself).
Thanks for the update.
poc