Hello, I'm a new SuSE user. I switched to SuSE 10.0 x86_64 from Fedora x86, and I'm loving it. I've noticed that the RAR RPM specifically for the x86_64 is not available in the SuSE distribution and it doesn't seem to be available anywhere on the web (I already have the UNRAR RPM installed for x86_64). This isn't a big deal because I downloaded the binary tarball of RAR for Linux from the RAR site and it works. But I'd rather use an RPM as specifically compiled for my current architecture as possible. Is this possibly because the UNRAR source is available and the RAR source is not? (I'm not sure if the rar source is available) I suppose that would explain why they couldn't make an x86_64 RPM? I'd appreciate some information. ~Mark
On Sunday 08 January 2006 03:53, Mark Nenadov wrote:
I've noticed that the RAR RPM specifically for the x86_64 is not available in the SuSE distribution and it doesn't seem to be available anywhere on the web (I already have the UNRAR RPM installed for x86_64).
You could place a request with Packman to produce a 64 bit version. They produce the 32 bit version. packman@links2linux.de -- Regards, Graham Smith
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Saturday 2006-01-07 at 11:53 -0500, Mark Nenadov wrote:
Is this possibly because the UNRAR source is available and the RAR source is not? (I'm not sure if the rar source is available) I suppose that would explain why they couldn't make an x86_64 RPM? I'd appreciate some information.
I understand that only unrar is free and available; you would need to pay the developer for the rar compressor, it is shareware - or was, it has been a long time since I checked. - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFDwRMRtTMYHG2NR9URApFLAJ9IF5Nn6ceLbgx1CJP6F+FeRFIsZACeKfaB 8iXdyCOZ6G/6+WwFNrvSI80= =7kLk -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Saturday 2006-01-07 at 11:53 -0500, Mark Nenadov wrote:
Is this possibly because the UNRAR source is available and the RAR source is not? (I'm not sure if the rar source is available) I suppose that would explain why they couldn't make an x86_64 RPM? I'd appreciate some information.
I understand that only unrar is free and available; you would need to pay the developer for the rar compressor, it is shareware - or was, it has been a long time since I checked.
IIRC, this is basically true. rar is proprietary, and only a binary is provided, of which there is no 64 bit available. unrar is different, the source is provided, and is possible to build on x86_64. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871
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