RAR extraction error help needed?

[kubuntu11]

I have installed the "ark" archiver but when I try to unpack a rar file it giver an error saying : "The tool unrar is not in the search way". In other words the ark program cant locate the archive that I want to unpack??

Is there any other "rar-unpack" programs that I can use except ark

[arochester]

Re: RAR extraction error help needed?

unrar (non-free) and unrar-free are both available from the repositories.

[kubuntu11]

Re: RAR extraction error help needed?

unrar (non-free) and unrar-free are both available from the repositories.

Thx. still cant get ark to work and package manager cat find "unrar"

When I try extracting with ark I get the following error in terminal console :

/usr/bin$ ark
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 166
  Major opcode:  144
  Minor opcode:  3
  Resource id:  0x0
Failed to open device
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 166
  Major opcode:  144
  Minor opcode:  3
  Resource id:  0x0
Failed to open device
mark@mark-desktop:/usr/bin$ kio (KMimeType): WARNING: mimetype not valid '' (missing entry in the file ?)
kio (KMimeType): WARNING: mimetype not valid '' (missing entry in the file ?)
kparts: WARNING: StatusBarExtension::removeStatusBarItem. Widget not found : [KPushButton pointer (0x82caa0) to widget CancelButton, geometry=100x30+0+0]

any suggestions what could be wrong??Any other "rar-extracters" I can try?

[kubuntu11]

Re: RAR extraction error help needed?

I installed new respositories on the link below.Then I could download the package "unrar" instead, that worked fine.

http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu_E...a_repositories

Is there anyway to unpack archives in unrar, without having to use Konsole
and type : unrar x rar-file I liked the design and usability of "ark" if it would have worked that is.Is there any config avaible so that I can get the unrar to work the same as ark

[arochester]

Re: RAR extraction error help needed?

I use Synaptic Package Manager because I think it is best.

To install it, if you don't have it already:

sudo apt-get install synaptic

I would try Synaptic to reinstall it. Package>Mark for reinstallation - then press apply.

See if that helps.

[kubicle]

Re: RAR extraction error help needed?

Is there anyway to unpack archives in unrar, without having to use Konsole
and type : unrar x rar-file  I liked the design and usability of "ark" if it would have worked that is.Is there any config avaible so that I can get the unrar to work the same as ark

Ark is a sort of 'toolbox' that uses different compressing (CLI) tools to compress files, unrar is one of those tools, so if you have 'unrar' installed, ark should be able to automagically handle rar-archives. 'unrar' and 'unrar-free' can only decompress rar files, if you want to compress in the rar format you'd probably need 'rar' package, which is shareware. So if you don't want to pay for your software, use other formats.

[kubuntu11]

Re: RAR extraction error help needed?

Thx for the help works now after I changed the respositories and reinstalled the "ark" package.