Bug 365594 - Use 7z instead of unrar
Summary: Use 7z instead of unrar
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 283134
Alias: None
Product: ark
Classification: Applications
Component: plugins (show other bugs)
Version: 16.04.3
Platform: Other All
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ragnar Thomsen
URL: http://www.7-zip.org/history.txt
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Reported: 2016-07-13 07:34 UTC by Jos van den Oever
Modified: 2016-07-13 09:56 UTC (History)
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Description Jos van den Oever 2016-07-13 07:34:28 UTC 
Ark uses the unfree program unrar. 7z can also open RAR files. Since version 15.12 (november 2015), it can open RARv5 files too.

So Ark can drop the need for unrar and use 7z instead.

Unarchiver also supports opening RAR files. It has a command-line version called unar which is .e.g. packaged by Debian.

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Elvis Angelaccio 2016-07-13 09:25:15 UTC 
Hi, for technical reasons we cannot use 7z for RAR files. However, Ark 16.04 already has support for The Unarchiver. Just make sure to uninstall unrar and install unar.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 283134 ***
Comment 2 Jos van den Oever 2016-07-13 09:56:43 UTC 
Excellent! I should have read the README.packagers more carefully.