Cannot open rar archives
Andrew V. Samoilov
sav at bcs.zp.ua
Fri Jan 17 12:05:07 UTC 2003
Andrew Borodin wrote:
> Hi!
>
> When I try enter into rar archives, the error message "/usr/share/mc/extfs/urar: rar: command not found"
> is shown. It's true - I don't have rar program in my Linux. But I have
> unrar. I don't need to create or modify rar archives, just unpack only.
>
> IMHO, it is not very well when the free program (mc) requires
> proprietary program (rar) by default. The simple workaround to allow mc
> enter into rar archives is install unrar and do
>
> $ cd /usr/bin && ln -s unrar rar
Can you test attached patch?
You will have same problem if unrar is function or alias, but in your
case it must help.
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Regards,
Andrew V. Samoilov
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