On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 11:00 AM David C. Rankin
packman repo has rar-5.7.1-lp150.1.1.x86_64
leaving nonofficial repos aside of this discussion for a moment and also non-oss/non-free software especially proprietary, see the whole mess with nagware, malware etc on the windows world, I am not ready to install corporate ware or any kind of commercial darkware onto open source platforms... just yet....
and you can get zip-3.0-lp150.2.7.x86_64 from OSS
i have plenty of packages installed on this leap 15.2 and I simply live a simple noob life on the kde desktop. I take the rar or 7zip archive files corporates transfer over to me. I try to click em in dolphin as a noob gui approach. i get an error inside a gui window titled "ark" or something. showing me it cant handle the content. of either file. rar or 7zip. so I even go to Konsole. I fire up a /usr/bin/7z t rarname.here.rar or even a usr/bin/7z t 7zipfilename.here.7zip and that command shows me it is similarly aged and ancient 7zip 7-Zip [64] 16.02 : Copyright (c) 1999-2016 Igor Pavlov : 2016-05-21 p7zip Version 16.02 (locale=en_US.UTF-8,Utf16=on,HugeFiles=on,64 bits,..... Scanning the drive for archives: 1 file,.... ... Path =.... Type = Rar5 Physical Size = .... ..... Solid = - Blocks = .... Encrypted = - Multivolume = - Volumes = .... ERROR: Unsupported Method : .... inside file name here ERROR: Unsupported Method : .... inside file name here ERROR: Unsupported Method : .... inside file name here ..... Sub items Errors: .... Archives with Errors: 1 Sub items Errors: ....
Testing archive:> Are you saying these versions of rar and zip don't work with current .rar and .zip files?
exactly. that is what this whole thread is about. the only approach so far I could barely manage to make use of the archive files is via wine and using windows x64 7zip installer and its results from inside wine. very odd that a neat open source project such as 7zip did never make it into the rest of the open source world with its current releases, let alone gui interfaces or plugins or libraries for that dolphin ark whatever api library external calls or something approach kind of had the illusion that oss would be profiting from each other's works ;( -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org