antonis_wrx Posted November 25, 2005 Report Share Posted November 25, 2005 What should I install to open rar files with ark? I get the following error message: The utility unrar is not on your PATH. Please install it or contact your system admninstrator. I try downloading from rpmdrake the unrar-3.50 but I it is unable to download it... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aomighty Posted November 25, 2005 Report Share Posted November 25, 2005 If you have urpmi set up, you can just "urpmi unrar" and urpmi "rar" likewise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted November 25, 2005 Report Share Posted November 25, 2005 Yes, set up software mirrors with the easyurpmi link at the top of the page and install the packages. I must state however that in the past, I had encountered some rar packages that still could not be extracted, but I hope the new unrar version fixed that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted November 25, 2005 Report Share Posted November 25, 2005 Or get the tarball from rarlabs, and put the files at a path- say /usr/bin The packer will work even without a licence after the 30 days trial- but with some delay. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gul Dukat Posted November 26, 2005 Report Share Posted November 26, 2005 Configuring urpmi and installing rargui and/or xarchive should do the trick. You can use both with a graphical interface. I know rargui also handles password-encrypted rar-files and I thought the latest xarchive does the same. I use both of them and I'am very pleased about them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antonis_wrx Posted November 26, 2005 Author Report Share Posted November 26, 2005 [root@localhost antonis]# urpmi unrar  ftp://ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/plf/mandra...102plf.i586.rpm ...retrieving failed: curl failed: exited with 19 or signal 0  Installation failed, some files are missing: ftp://ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/plf/mandra...102plf.i586.rpm You may want to update your urpmi database  ...retrieving failed: curl: (19) Given file does not exist  any ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dexter11 Posted November 26, 2005 Report Share Posted November 26, 2005 Update your urpmi database by: urpmi.update -a Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted November 26, 2005 Report Share Posted November 26, 2005 (edited) Either try again, or change urpmi repo. Also, if you are behind a router and curl fails (for whatever reason) to connect properly, you can substitute curl with wget- just read the urpmi documentation. Edited November 26, 2005 by scarecrow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antonis_wrx Posted November 27, 2005 Author Report Share Posted November 27, 2005 ok. Thanks, it worked fine aftter uprmi.update -a Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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