Hello all.
New here. Only been using opensuse for a couple of days.
I am trying to unrar a multipart rar file from the desktop. Ark does not do it. I have checked and as far as i can tell unrar is installed. The files are located on a network drive if that makes any difference. the files are named from .rar through to .r28
Any help would be great.
Thanks
It does.
But the files probably have to be on your local hard disk so Ark can access them. If you click on a file from a remote share in dolphin, it is temporarily copied to your hard disk and then opened, so the other parts are not there.
Alternatively, try to mount the share before accessing it, e.g. with mount or smb4k.
Tanks. I will try work out how to mount it and give that a go.
Regarding “mount”, the simplest way for a SMB share would be:
sudo mount //HOST/SHARE *mountpoint*
(replace mountpoint with the location where you want to mount it, i.e. where you want to be able to access the share afterwards, /mnt would be an option)
This line only works if the share allows guest access without username/password. To specify a username/password use something like this:
sudo mount //HOST/SHARE *mountpoint* -o username=*xxx*,password=*yyy*
smb4k is a graphical tool for browsing/mounting SMB shares, it is included in the distribution, just install it with YaST or zypper.
http://software.opensuse.org/package/smb4k
are you sure unrar is installed, it’s propitiatory software and while old versions of opensuse did come with unrar/unace newer ones do not.
you are trying to use ark, why not open a terminal window and execute (un)rar the output will tell you if rar is installed, you can get a pre-packaged rar rpm from packman
http://packman.links2linux.org/package/rar
Another good OFM/unpacker that handles rar is doublecmd, that one does not use the unrar console application but am unrar library
https://software.opensuse.org/package/doublecmd-qt
there is a gtk port if you prefer gnome style window decorations
https://software.opensuse.org/package/doublecmd-gtk
unrar is still included in the distribution, but it is in the non-oss repo:
wolfi@amiga:~> LANG=C zypper se -s unrar
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
S | Name | Type | Version | Arch | Repository
--+----------------+---------+-------------+--------+----------------------
| libunrar-devel | package | 5.1.7-2.1.2 | x86_64 | openSUSE-13.2-Non-Oss
| libunrar-devel | package | 5.1.7-2.1.2 | i586 | openSUSE-13.2-Non-Oss
| libunrar5_1_7 | package | 5.1.7-2.1.2 | x86_64 | openSUSE-13.2-Non-Oss
| libunrar5_1_7 | package | 5.1.7-2.1.2 | i586 | openSUSE-13.2-Non-Oss
i | unrar | package | 5.1.7-2.1.2 | x86_64 | openSUSE-13.2-Non-Oss
v | unrar | package | 5.1.7-2.1.2 | i586 | openSUSE-13.2-Non-Oss
And I think it is even installed by default (it is recommended by the installation patterns IIANM), at least if you open YaST and didn’t disable the installation of recommended packages.
you are trying to use ark, why not open a terminal window and execute (un)rar
Wouldn’t work at all for remote shares if he doesn’t mount them first… 
The same might be true for that other application you suggest, or maybe that one does mount a share if you access it?
On 2015-07-27 15:26, I A wrote:
>
> are you sure unrar is installed, it’s propitiatory software and while
No, unrar is freeware.
cer@minas-tirith:~> rpm -qfi /usr/bin/unrar
Name : unrar
Version : 5.0.11
Release : 2.1.6
Architecture: x86_64
Install Date: 2014-01-06T17:14:18 CET
Group : Productivity/Archiving/Compression
Size : 316820
License : SUSE-NonFree
Signature : RSA/SHA256, 2013-10-14T13:19:05 CEST, Key ID b88b2fd43dbdc284
Source RPM : unrar-5.0.11-2.1.6.src.rpm
Build Date : 2013-10-14T13:18:48 CEST
Build Host : build10
Relocations : (not relocatable)
Packager : http://bugs.opensuse.org
Vendor : openSUSE
URL : http://www.rarlab.com
Summary : A program to extract, test, and view RAR archives
Description :
The unRAR utility is a freeware program distributed with source code
and developed for extracting, testing, and viewing the contents of
archives created with the RAR archiver.
Distribution: openSUSE 13.1
cer@minas-tirith:~>
It is “rar” which comes from packman.
/usr/share/doc/packages/rar/license.txt
> 2. The software is distributed as try before you buy. This means that
> anyone may use the software during a test period of a maximum of 40 days
> at no charge. Following this test period, the user must purchase
> a license to continue using the software.
–
Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” (Minas Tirith))
I know, I wasn’t sure opensuse included unrar in any of the repo’s, that’s why I mentioned packman.
FYI there is an LGPL open source project called unar “The Unarchiver commandline tool” that has full unrar 4.x support, the rarlab people weren’t too happy about it
https://software.opensuse.org/package/unar
Fileroller can use it if it’s installed not sure about ark
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=646606
There is anoter LGPL project that can unpack rar files called unarr (it’s based on the above Unarchiver)
they don’t have any Linux binaries only c code
doublecmd comes with it’s own unrar shared object and it’s a cool TC clone for Linux
https://software.opensuse.org/package/doublecmd-qt
openSUSE Software it’s Free as in free beer not free speech
All good thanks people. unrar was definitely installed.
Once i got the mounting sorted all was good. I had a small problem though as I could browse my shares but when trying to mount and when I used smb4k it showed me i had a firewall issue. Fixed that and all is good. Have an issue with vlc now that i have to try and work out.
VLC issues are generally due to proprietary stuff. No proprietary stuff ships by default in openSUSE. it is all well…open 
So in general you can get proprietary compatible versions from packman. So all parts of vlc must come from packman to play proprietary formats. There are stickies a the top of the mutimedia section of the fourm that shows how