Hi,

It's unusual because rar and its file format are closed (maybe patented). The vendor provides an open source unrar utility, and that's it.

There are MUCH BETTER options, like 7-zip.org (p7zip is part of Fedora and is part of RHEL or can be added through EPEL, and is supported by File-Roller and Nautilus). Better compression rate, speedier, all open source. The windows GUI version is also much better than WinRAR.

So it's enough for me to have an unrar to open files in this format by people who don't know there's better alternatives.


[]s, Fernando Lozano

On Thu, 5 Jul 2012, Aaron Konstam wrote:

On Thu, 2012-07-05 at 14:15 -0400, Max Pyziur wrote:
Greetings,

I'm searching for Fedora-compliant packages of rar and unrar. I know that they can be found at Repoforge (http://repoforge.org/). However, they are
for CentOS and RHEL.

Are there any repos where rpm packages of rar/unrar that can be found and
useable on Fedora 17?

Much thanks.

Max Pyziur
p...@brama.com


unrar is available in rpmfusion-nonfree-updates. But no rar. Seems
either unfair or unsymmetrical.

Or even unusual.

Much thanks for all of the replies.

MP
p...@brama.com


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