Demand a better archive format, tar.bz2 has much better compression. Otherwise:
apt-cache search unrar unrar-free - Unarchiver for .rar files unrar - Unarchiver for .rar files (non-free version) Just add contrib non-free to the end of your mirror if you must use the non-free version of unrar it should look something like this: deb ftp://ftp.<xx>.debian.org/debian/ etch main contrib non-free replace <xx> with a mirror near you. apt-cache search p7zip p7zip - 7zr file archiver with high compression ratio p7zip-full - 7z and 7za file archivers with high compression ratio p7zip-full has issues with corrupting certain rar archives but is free software. On Nov 13, 2007 4:17 PM, Dave Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a friend with a new debian amd-64 install. He has unrar-free but it > won't open RAR 3.0 files. It looks like it would be worthwhile to try unrar > but I am not able to get appropriate access for synaptic. > > I went to: > http://packages.debian.org/sid/unrar/amd64/download > > and tried adding a line to /etc/apt/sources.list as suggested at that page but > get error warnings when starting synaptic. The net effect is that searching > for unrar gives only the already installed unrar-free. I have the .deb > package for unrar but installing it fails due to a dependency error. > > Can someone point me to a tutorial or explain how to get better information > about the problem? This is what I got from uname: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -a > Linux debianroger 2.6.18-5-amd64 #1 SMP Tue Oct 2 20:37:02 UTC 2007 x86_64 > GNU/Linux > > Thanks very much. > > Dave > > > -- > Alexis Soyer, that Napoleon of the kitchen, to celebrate the ending of the > Crimea war, served up a dish which he called a Culinary Emblem of Peace, > containing among many other ingredients twelve boxes of lobsters and 200 > eggs. > > - H.W. Tilman > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
