hi, I have installed rpm repository the latest and installed the unrar from terminal, but i am not able to open any rar file. When i double cliked it there is a empty window xarchiver with nothing in it and there is a message saying that "check your store archiver output" I am using XFCE 17 latest vesion
How to open .rar files with 7zip. I use this all the time and its free
mmm The correct way to install rar is:
Enable & install RPMfusion:
su -c 'yum localinstall --nogpgcheck http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm'
Installation
su -c 'yum -y install unrar'
Bonus 7zip support
su -c 'yum -y install p7zip p7zip-plugins'
xarchiver probably doesn't support it. Just install file-roller
yum install file-roller
(then you can remove xarchiver)
edit: bonus tip: You can use unrar directly from the command line, for instance
unrar e myfile.rar
Its command-line options you find with
man unrar
Asked: 2012-10-06 05:01:58 -0500
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