From: Liliana Marie Prikler <liliana.prikler@gmail.com>
To: Simon Tournier <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>,
Giovanni Biscuolo <g@xelera.eu>,
Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
Cc: kiasoc5 <kiasoc5@disroot.org>,
52109@debbugs.gnu.org, Foo Chuan Wei <chuanwei.foo@hotmail.com>
Subject: [bug#52109] How to resolve? (Re: [bug#52109] [PATCH] gnu: Add unrar-free.)
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2023 14:56:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <69bf571edfe9834851ddcd9f93e8158983b42612.camel@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87o7qyvmkp.fsf@gmail.com>
Am Montag, dem 16.01.2023 um 10:46 +0100 schrieb Simon Tournier:
> Hi Liliana,
>
> On ven., 13 janv. 2023 at 19:18, Liliana Marie Prikler
> <liliana.prikler@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I hazard a guess that you didn't have to unpack many RAR archives
> > via CLI then. Which fair enough, because there are other
> > libarchive frontends to further prove my point that unrar-free is
> > not needed.
>
> Your guess is incorrect. I unpack RAR archives via CLI using…
> unrar-free from Debian – I collaborate with people running Windows
> where RAR is very common.
>
> Well, I just notice that even after this long thread, I do not still
> know how to extract RAR archives using another tool than unrar-free.
>
> Out of curiosity, how can I extract RAR archives using Guix without
> unrar-free? Liliana, you mentioned BSDtar but “guix search” does not
> return something relevant. Please, could you indicate me how to
> extract RAR archives using Guix without unrar-free?
$ guix shell --pure libarchive -- bsdtar -xf $YOUR_ARCHIVE
In addition to that, note how file-roller, which comes with the default
GNOME setup, also handles RAR. You'd typically want it for its GUI,
but it can be invoked from the command line like
$ file-roller $YOUR_ARCHIVE -e $WHERE_TO_PUT_IT
Cheers
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-01-16 13:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-11-25 15:19 [bug#52109] [PATCH] gnu: Add unrar-free Foo Chuan Wei
2021-11-25 19:49 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2023-01-04 0:57 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2023-01-04 5:32 ` kiasoc5 via Guix-patches via
2023-01-04 19:41 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2023-01-04 20:21 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2023-01-06 17:46 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2023-01-10 16:47 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2023-01-11 22:31 ` zimoun
2023-01-12 6:22 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2023-01-12 7:36 ` Giovanni Biscuolo
2023-01-12 20:29 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2023-01-12 21:54 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2023-01-12 23:07 ` Leo Famulari
2023-01-13 5:19 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2023-01-13 15:20 ` [bug#52109] How to resolve? (Re: [bug#52109] [PATCH] gnu: Add unrar-free.) Simon Tournier
2023-01-13 18:18 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2023-01-16 9:46 ` Simon Tournier
2023-01-16 13:56 ` Liliana Marie Prikler [this message]
2023-01-16 16:38 ` Simon Tournier
2023-01-21 16:09 ` [bug#52109] Mention bsdcat, bsdcpio and bsdtar in description of libarchive zimoun
2023-01-21 17:59 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2023-01-21 20:02 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2023-01-22 15:09 ` zimoun
2023-01-22 17:44 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2023-01-22 19:36 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2023-01-23 7:45 ` zimoun
2023-01-23 19:29 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2023-01-21 20:00 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2023-01-22 14:56 ` zimoun
2023-01-22 19:27 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2023-01-12 12:54 ` [bug#52109] [PATCH] gnu: Add unrar-free Leo Famulari
2023-01-12 20:49 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2023-01-04 22:32 ` kiasoc5 via Guix-patches via
2023-01-13 18:29 ` bug#52109: " Leo Famulari
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