Bug 364976

Summary:	Cannot extract rar file
Product:	[Applications] ark	Reporter:	tukkek
Component:	plugins	Assignee:	Ragnar Thomsen <rthomsen6>
Status:	RESOLVED DOWNSTREAM
Severity:	normal	CC:	elvis.angelaccio, ped, rakuco, rthomsen6
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	16.04.2
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Debian testing
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description tukkek 2016-07-01 13:18:51 UTC

The Debian version actually says 16.04.2 which isn't listed in the bug tracker (more specifically: 4:16.04.2-1).

When clicking my .rar file Ark opens with the following message: "The archive is empty or Ark could not open its content".

I have unrar-free installed (version 1:0.0.1+cvs201), the also suggested "rar" package is not installed (unavailable).

Running ` unrar-free myfile.rar --extract` works fine.

Reproducible: Always


Actual Results:  
Error message is shown.

Expected Results:  
Open the rar file.

Comment 1 tukkek 2016-07-01 13:24:42 UTC

Forgot to add: thank you for the great work, I've been using Ark for probably over a decade and have never found the need to look for any other program. It took me quite a while to get used to the default behavior of "extract to sub-folder or not" but once I got it it makes perfect sense (if the content is already contained in a folder then the default is to extract to the given path directly).

This is a very minor issue for me because I can just run the given command instead but for less technical users this means they probably can't open any RAR file at all, which could actually be a major/grave issue instead considering it's still a very popular format. Feel free to change the severity accordingly and once again thank you for the awesome work developing/maintaining this KDE-quality-level application, promoting KDE as the ultimate open-source standard of quality!

Comment 2 Elvis Angelaccio 2016-07-01 14:24:42 UTC

Hi, support for unrar-free was dropped a while ago. Ark 16.04 has introduced support for unar [1], which is what we recommend as free RAR backend.

So a simple 'apt-get install unar' should allow you to extract RAR archives using Ark. If not, please tell us.

[1]: https://packages.debian.org/stretch/unar

Comment 3 tukkek 2016-07-01 19:56:16 UTC

Thank you, I will write a Debian-specific bug so the maintainer can fix the dependencies. Thank you for the quick reply and excellent work on the ark package.

Comment 4 Elvis Angelaccio 2016-07-01 21:03:08 UTC

All right, closing as downstream.

Comment 5 tukkek 2016-07-01 21:14:58 UTC

For completeness sake here is the Debian bug report. The fix has been submitted already. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=829265

Comment 6 Elvis Angelaccio 2017-06-11 17:46:02 UTC

*** Bug 380984 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***