[mc] what archive support packages are required to be installed in an rpm distro for mc to navigate .debs as it can with .rpms?

[Felix Miata]

"what archive support packages are required to be installed in an rpm distro for
mc to navigate .debs as it can with .rpms?"

The .debs are from Ubuntu, which is not where I wish to use MC to navigate them.
That's in Mageia, Fedora, and most importantly, openSUSE:
# rpmqa tar
libstartup-notification-1-0-0.12-150400.13.6.x86_64
tar-1.34-150000.3.34.1.x86_64
#

OP was based upon 4.8.31 in openSUSE Leap 15.5. I see a different message in
4.8.30 in 15.4, 4.8.30 in 15.6 (tar 1.34-150000.3.31.1) and 4.8.30 in Slowroll
(tar 1.35-1.1):

	EXTFS virtual file system:
	/usr/lib/mc/extfs.d/uar: line 18: ar: command not found

In Fedora 39, installing dpkg for 4.8.30 is apparently adequate to task, same as
in Tumbleweed (which has tar 1.35-1.2). In Mageia 9 with tar 1.34-5, failing
result is same as in Leap 15.5 (OP).

solarflow99 composed on 2024-02-12 17:57 (UTC-0800):

> ubuntu 22 is new enough you should have this feature already:

> *# grep -w VERSION /etc/os-release

>         VERSION="22.04.1 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish)" *

> *# tar --help | grep zstd

>              --zstd                 filter the archive through zstd*

> *# tar --versiontar (GNU tar) 1.34 *

> On Mon, Feb 12, 2024 at 4:01 AM Erdmut Pfeifer via mc <
> mc at lists.midnight-commander.org> wrote:

>> Does your version of tar (which is being called under the hood) support
>> the zstd format?
>> I think support for it was added in tar-1.31 - maybe openSUSE has on older
>> version.

>>   $ tar --help | grep zstd
>>       --zstd                 filter the archive through zstd

>> In case you can't or don't want to upgrade to a more recent version for
>> whatever reason, you might
>> try fiddling with tar's --use-compress-program option, e.g. by writing a
>> wrapper which adds
>> --use-compress-program=zstd to the list of args tar is being called with
>> if the tarball's name ends
>> in .tar.zst (and making sure the wrapper is being found before the regular
>> tar program...)

>> ------------------------------
>> *From:* Erdmut Pfeifer <erdmut.pfeifer at eviden.com>
>> *Sent:* Monday, February 12, 2024 12:44
>> *To:* List for Midnight Commander users <mc at lists.midnight-commander.org>
>> *Subject:* Re: [mc] what archive support packages are required to be
>> installed in an rpm distro for mc to navigate .debs as it can with .rpms?

>> Does your version of tar (which is being called under the hood) support
>> the zstd format?
>> I think support for it was added in tar-1.31 - maybe openSUSE has on older
>> version.

>>   $ tar --help | grep zstd
>>       --zstd                 filter the archive through zstd

>> In case you can't or don't want to upgrade to a more recent version for
>> whatever reason, you might
>> try fiddling with tar's --use-compress-program option, e.g. by writing a
>> wrapper which adds
>> --use-compress-program=zstd to the list of args tar is being called with
>> if the tarball's name ends
>> in .tar.zst (and making sure the wrapper is being found before the regular
>> tar program...)

>> ------------------------------
>> *From:* mc <mc-bounces at lists.midnight-commander.org> on behalf of Felix
>> Miata via mc <mc at lists.midnight-commander.org>
>> *Sent:* Monday, February 12, 2024 09:15
>> *To:* mc at lists.midnight-commander.org <mc at lists.midnight-commander.org>
>> *Cc:* Felix Miata <mrmazda at earthlink.net>
>> *Subject:* [mc] what archive support packages are required to be
>> installed in an rpm distro for mc to navigate .debs as it can with .rpms?

>> What archive support packages are required to be installed in an rpm
>> distro for mc
>> to navigate (ubuntu 22.04) .debs as it can with .rpms? My Google-fu isn't
>> doing
>> very well with this. As it stands, trying to navigate with mc produces:

>>         ...deb' uses unknown compression for member 'control.tar.zst',
>> giving up

>> Installed here in openSUSE:
>> # zypper se -si arc zip zstd dpkg apt zma xz | grep 6_6
>> i+ | bzip2          | package | 1.0.8-150400.1.122    | x86_64 | OSS
>> i+ | dpkg           | package | 1.19.0.4-150000.4.4.1 | x86_64 | OSS
>> i  | gzip           | package | 1.10-150200.10.1      | x86_64 | OSS
>> i  | libarchive13   | package | 3.5.1-150400.3.12.1   | x86_64 | OSS
>> i  | libKF5Archive5 | package | 5.103.0-150500.1.3    | x86_64 | OSS
>> i  | liblzma5       | package | 5.2.3-150000.4.7.1    | x86_64 | OSS
>> i+ | libzip-tools   | package | 1.8.0-150400.1.7      | x86_64 | OSS
>> i  | libzip5        | package | 1.8.0-150400.1.7      | x86_64 | OSS
>> i  | libzstd1       | package | 1.5.0-150400.3.3.1    | x86_64 | OSS
>> i  | unzip          | package | 6.00-150000.4.11.1    | x86_64 | OSS
>> i  | xz             | package | 5.2.3-150000.4.7.1    | x86_64 | OSS
>> i+ | zip            | package | 3.0-2.22              | x86_64 | OSS
>> i  | zstd           | package | 1.5.0-150400.3.3.1    | x86_64 | OSS
>> #
>> What else is needed?-- 
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