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.

-- 
Regards,
Andrew V. Samoilov
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