Ark, is not influenced by the presence or not of rar package. Looking at the file-roller and ark source, the problem with unrar command implementation, lies in /file-roller-2.30.1.1/src/fr-command-rar.cin file
Not a developer, but in the aforementioned file, changing the order of these two lines as follows, and compiling solves the problem in file-roller... if (have_rar ()) fr_process_begin_command (comm->process, "unrar"); else fr_process_begin_command (comm->process, "rar"); HopeThatHelps -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to file-roller in ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/177929 Title: We needs file encoding select function. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs