Public bug reported: When viewing an arj archive, mc apparently tries to invoke unarj even when arj is installed and this leads to an error message (unarj: not found). This bug is very easy to reproduce: just create a dummy arj archive with arj a whatever.arj whatever.file then launch mc, select the arj file and press F3. In fact unarj is not available in the repositories and mc completely ignores arj (neither does it suggest to install it, nor does it make use of it when arj is installed).
mc should use arj and display the file's content normally. The same operation works perfectly fine with a zoo archive for instance. This problem is also present in Lucid 10.04.4 amd64 and and in Debian squeeze (I just burnt debian-live-6.0.5-amd64-standard.iso on a CD). Interestingly it was filed several years ago on Debian's bug tracker, a patch was provided and the issue is marked as fixed but for some reason it is still present. The relevant bug report is <http://bugs.debian.org /cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=340089> ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: mc 3:4.8.1-2ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-29.46-generic 3.2.24 Uname: Linux 3.2.0-29-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu12 Architecture: amd64 CasperVersion: 1.315 Date: Thu Oct 18 04:56:21 2012 LiveMediaBuild: Xubuntu 12.04.1 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120817.3) ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: mc UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) ** Affects: mc (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug precise -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1067981 Title: mc tries to use unarj instead of arj, which leads to an error message To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mc/+bug/1067981/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
