ramfree17 Posted April 21, 2005 Report Share Posted April 21, 2005 Frankly, I would never package anything in any of the less common formats. Anyone who tries to distribute files in a 7zip, ace or rar archive, needs to rethink. this is just a matter of preference. some people really like a certain format (compression, design, whatever) and would distribute their files in those format regardless if their 'consumers' have the capability to decompress it or not. if the latter is the case then they usually point to downloadable programs that could compress/decompress in that format. why on earth do they do that? dont they care about their consumers? maybe? but i think its a devious way of helping your preferred format get exposure. think about it, if you really want the contents of that uncommon archive format what would you do? do you just say "ah its not worth the hassle" or do you install a decompressor for that? most people would do the latter. uncommon is not necessarily bad/evil/non-sensical. if nobody tries these 'alternatives' then we would all be stuck with one format and innovations might be stifled if everybody is already happy. some of these formats were created to scractch an itch that was not addressed by previous formats. or the other way around, it depends on your history skills. oh, im just going on a monologue based on a topic that veedub presented. my post is not a direct reply to veedub's post. ciao! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
papaschtroumpf Posted April 28, 2005 Report Share Posted April 28, 2005 like it or not, rar is a very common format nowadays. (ace is pretty much outdated but I still have ace archives). 7ZIP has a higher compression format, so it really matters to have the smallest possible archive it might make sense to use it. I also used to be that RAR security was much better than zip for encrypted archives (I don;t know if that's still true though) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted April 29, 2005 Report Share Posted April 29, 2005 on windows rar and ace are extremely common. personally, if im looking for compression, nothing beats a good tar.bz2 :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kompact Posted April 29, 2005 Report Share Posted April 29, 2005 I was wondering the same thing - dealing with .rar files, so I grabbed 7-zip for Windows and installed it with Xoffice and it has a decent gui and is easy to work with all types of archives. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted April 29, 2005 Report Share Posted April 29, 2005 7zip has a linux cli version, oooorr you can install rar on linux and ark/file-roller will automatically use that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Scrimpshire Posted April 29, 2005 Report Share Posted April 29, 2005 As long as you have a contribs source in your urpmi urpmi unrar works fine. I downloaded the CEP and tested it. Worked fine here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lärs Posted May 1, 2005 Author Report Share Posted May 1, 2005 (edited) Hi Lärs, why unrar? You could also use rar: with "rar e" you can extract rar archives. I use it for years and it works fine. tl017 <{POST_SNAPBACK}> As long as you have a contribs source in your urpmi urpmi unrar Steve, I wish it could be that simple. However, I don't currently have an internet connection on my Linux box (sad isn't it, as many of Linux's strongpoints are with the net). Thank you for your advice, nevertheless. tl017, Well, I never thought of that. However, 7zip has been working well to my tastes. Yes indeed, rar has become a popular format with the Windows crowd because of its superiority to the somewhat archaic yet common Zip format. Saying rar files are useless because there aren't so many softwares for it to a Windows user is like a Windows user telling a *nix user that Tar.gz's are useless because they aren't well supported on Windows, heh. :lol: Good luck everyone, and thank you for advice to my inquiries. This forum is a lifesaver Edited May 1, 2005 by Lärs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Scrimpshire Posted May 1, 2005 Report Share Posted May 1, 2005 (edited) Sorry. I assumed you had a net connection: Trouble is, I downloaded a RAR archive. I decided to download the program called "unrar" from sourceforge. Here's a download location for 2005LE ftp://ftp.free.fr/pub/Distributions_Linux...102plf.i586.rpm Edited May 1, 2005 by Steve Scrimpshire Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
papaschtroumpf Posted May 1, 2005 Report Share Posted May 1, 2005 FYI, something I had been misssing: if you add the kde-addons package, Konqueror will have an "extract" context menu (right click) so that you don't have to use Ark outside of Konqueror. Very useful! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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