Ark is a frontend for many archiving tools. If the cli tool for a particular format is not installed, Ark usually can't handle the format.
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what can be done if it's not a RAR archive but a RAR self-extracting
archive? I want to flash my motherboard bios and the file from gigabyte says when I run file on it: (I renamed it to make the filename show up better in dosbox) $> file mth_bios.exe mth_bios.exe: MS-DOS executable PE for MS Windows (GUI) Intel 80386 32-bit, RAR self-extracting archive so I tried running it in dosbox and it says it's a win32 exe. Arrgh, why can't they just zip these things. Is there some way to strip the exe stub off so I just have the RAR archive part, then make a file out of that so ARK or whatever can un-rar it? UPDATE-- I think I found that "unrar" will do the job: $> unrar lv mth_bios.exe UNRAR 3.60 beta 2 freeware Copyright (c) 1993-2006 Alexander Roshal SFX Archive mth_bios.exe Name Size Packed Ratio Date Time Attr CRC Meth Ver ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- m51gms2g.f5 524288 307627 58% 17-07-06 10:42 .....A. B2336B54 m3e 2.9 autoexec.bat 20 20 100% 21-07-06 13:12 .....A. E5652C78 m0e 2.9 FLASH895.EXE 176886 138004 78% 27-06-06 13:45 .....A. 406D4387 m3e 2.9 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3 701194 445651 63% ---- Mark |
a gui for rar issue
hi folks;
I've found a way with "Xarchiver" -a tool in xfce desktop- to rar/unrar packages in Arch, actually there is an add-on for this. they call it "xdg-utils" and it's available in the default pacman repos. if that didn't worked for u, i guess u should install "rar-beta" with "yaourt", that's what i did ;) |
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