[Linux4christians] ZIP & RAR files in Debian

[David Fierbaugh]

On Tuesday 20 June 2006 14:06, Tony Gulyas wrote:
> Hello ...
>
>  I have a question about unpacking .zip and .rar files in debian sarge.
>  Is there one particular utility that handles these files well over all
> other utilities and if so how do I handle these files in linux?
>
>  I noticed that KDE Konqueror opens zip files okay but then I cannot unpack
> the file from within Konqueror.
>
>  Any help would be appreciated, thanks.
>
>

From Konqueror, the archiving functions are handled by right clicking. Normal 
left clicking will simply open the archive and enter it as a directory. If 
there's a KIO slave for it, then you can browse (not all programs support 
this, gimp for exmple sometimes fails opening files from within an archive), 
and perform extraction from the menu you get by right clicking.

Can't help you with the package name for RAR on Debian, but I would expect to 
find it in the standard repository.  Take a look at rarsoft.com, where you 
can get the source.

To see if it's already installed, run '$ rar -v'.