Thanks for getting back to me. I will have to do more research; my experience with p7zip-full under Edgy was that it would not correctly recognize RAR content until the p7zip-rar plugin's Rar29.so was moved to /usr/lib/p7zip/Codecs/ (the file path used in the plugin's .DEB archive).
Is the default /usr/lib/p7zip/Formats/Rar.so compliant with RAR 2.9 archiving? Could it be that the archives p7zip failed to open without the Rar29.so plugin were merely a version ahead of what Rar.so could manage? I'll check into what it takes to detect specific versions of RAR archives. Again, thank you for your reply. Mohammed Adnène Trojette wrote: > > Hi Andrew, > > I am the Debian maintainer for p7zip and my opinion is that the documentation > is correct. Indeed, see : > > % dpkg -L p7zip-full|grep -i rar > /usr/lib/p7zip/Formats/Rar.so > > Does it make sense? > > Why it is not available on Ubuntu? I don't have the answer. It is on Debian, > where I am responsible for the package. And it is split from p7zip-full > because it is not free according to our guidelines. This is an interesting question on its own, as Ubuntu is progressively including more and more non-free content in its distribution. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | Andrew Roazen, Application Systems Analyst | Cline Library, Northern Arizona University | ☎ 928.523.6764 vCard <http://www2.nau.edu/%7Ear24/aroazen.vcf> The opinions expressed are those of the guy who sits at this desk, not his employers. -- description inaccurately describes RAR support https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/107296 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
