On 09/07/2020 11.45, cagsm wrote:
Wanted to make more use of Suse/Linux, but people from over the corporate and Windows worlds seem to be fond of submitting RAR and 7ZIP file formats to all the different places, channels, transfer mechanisms etc and seemingly even current Leap 15.2 seems to be unable to handle new sub version formats of both, rar and 7zip file formats. This is my interpretation of the failings to read/check/unpack the rar and 7zip files on a fresh leap 15.2 installation.
Lot of rar Files the ark program can not make any use of it complains it can not handle the content. Also the same for 7Zip as for the un*x world, there seems to be no fairly recent port of the open source 7zip project and or its libraries?
I have not found any really meaningful information out there either, additional repositories, or projects to port more recent unrar or better 7zip source code and libraries over to the linux etc world. I guess 7zip SDK and source code would suffice, as a current 7zip on the windows platform can reand and at least extract also current rar archive formats.
Anyone know how to solve these issues?
Rar is proprietary, so if they make changes and do not publish how to decode them, there is nothing that can be done on the Linux camp. And if they publish them, it takes time. But, you can install the proprietary version of rar (shareware), and at least test if those archives can be opened. I do not have test archives with the new formats to try myself. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.1 x86_64 at Telcontar)