Re: ark and rar

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 internal implementation and this has now been withdrawn because of 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?