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file-roller package

I can't open a winrar archive

Asked by Valentin Mirchanov

Binary package hint: file-roller

I'm working with both OS-Windows XP and Ubuntu on my PC.When a try to open" winrar" made document with file-roller it's can't opened.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/file-roller
Package: file-roller 2.26.1-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: file-roller
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-15-generic i686

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This question was originally filed as bug #442841.

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Valentin Mirchanov (mrchnv) said : 		#1
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Mansour Behabadi (oxplot) said : 		#2

You need to install support for RAR files. One such packages is unrar-free. Install it using the following shell command:

sudo aptitude install unrar-free

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Lars Ljung (larslj) said : 		#3

Thank you for taking the time to report this issue and helping to make Ubuntu better. Examining the information you have given us, this does not appear to be a bug report so we are closing it and converting it to a question in the support tracker. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but it would make more sense to raise problems you are having in the support tracker at https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu if you are uncertain if they are bugs. For help on reporting bugs, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs .

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Lars Ljung (larslj) said : 		#4

As Mike said, you need to install either unrar-free or unrar. The create rar archives you will need to install rar (shareware).

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Best zvacet (ivicakolic) said : 		#5

You can also install these packages from synaptic: p7zip,p7zip-full,p7zip-rar

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Valentin Mirchanov (mrchnv) said : 		#6

Tanks a lot for good advise.It's work now!
Best wishes!