unrar spanned archive

[mcgyver83]

Hi!
I have a spanned archive set (part1.rar, part2.rar .... etc) and I need to unrar it via command line.
I tried

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unrar e a.part1.rar

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unrar e a.part1.rar a.part2.rar

but I still have the same error:

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unrar 0.0.1  Copyright (C) 2004  Ben Asselstine, Jeroen Dekkers


Extracting from /media/ScreenPlayHD/a.part1.rar

Extracting  a.txt                                              Failed    
1 Failed

Everything is fine with single rar file or if I try to unrar the same spanned archive from windows.
Same error if I use Xarchive from LXDE.

[mcgyver83]

No one?

[RaTTuS]

umm at a guess they are named wrong
should they not be something like
file.rar
file.part2
file.part3

then you
unrar e file

it will find the other parts then

[mcgyver83]

On windows I can unrar them as they are now, a.rar, a.part1.rar, a.part2.rar ..
You are suggesting to rename them in a.part1, a.part2 removing rar suffix?

[RaTTuS]

yeah try it and see

I never use rar these days myself

[mcgyver83]

I had
a.part1.rar,
a.part2.rar,
a.part3.rar.

Unrar e a.part1.rar
failed.

Unrar e a.part1.rar a.part2.rar a.part3.rar
failed.


Renamed to
a.part1,
a.part2,
a.part3

Unrar e a.part1
failed.

Unrar e a.part1 a.part2 a.part3
failed.

Error:
unrar 0.0.1 Copyright (C) 2004 Ben Asselstine, Jeroen Dekkers


Extracting from /media/ScreenPlayHD/a.part1

Extracting p.iso Failed
1 Failed

[mcgyver83]

I still have the same problem.

Can someone suggest me another utility to unrar spanned archive?

[mcgyver83]

none can help me?

[suchenwi]

As RaTTuS wrote on Sep.23, the files should be named
x.rar
x.part2
x.part3
...
Have you tried that?

[jojopi]

As RaTTuS wrote on Sep.23, the files should be named
x.rar
x.part2
x.part3

No, they are named correctly. They can be either .partN.rar, or old-style: .rar .r00 .r01…

The problem is that the unrar implementation in package unrar-free does not support multipart archives. http://gna.org/bugs/?723

The "proper" versions of rar/unrar are not free software and presumably are not available for ARMv6 with hard float ABI. It may be possible to compile unrar (but not rar) yourself from source. http://www.rarlab.com/rar_add.htm

A better option is to stop using rar. It is very slow and does not have particularly good compression.

[mcgyver83]

Is the compile an hard job?
I'm e rookie on linux compilation stuff.
In the link you provided I found 2 interesting archive:
UnRAR for ARM Linux Command line freeware ARMEL v4 Linux UnRAR.
UnRAR for ARM Linux Command line freeware ARM Linux UnRAR.

Which one I have to download and compile?

There is any way to join the partN.rar files to have big rar file and use unrar-free with it?

[RaTTuS]

personally,
I'd unrar them on a PC then re zip them with anything else [or not and just move them whole]
rar is slow , proprietary , not very good and a lot of other things that I will not mention on a family friendly forum [FFF]

http://www.rarlab.com/rar/unrarsrc-5.0.12.tar.gz <- is probably the place you want to start

[mcgyver83]

Thanks.
I'll check you link.

Regards

[Joe Schmoe]

I know the goal is to "solve the problem" and not get waylaid into "side meta", but, just out of curiosity (seriously!), I think many of would like to know why it is that you need to use RAR.

Is this a one-time deal, or is it part of an on-going process?

Is there any reason why you couldn't just unrar it on a PC (and be done with this task) ?

(I assume that size is an issue - given that the thing is a multi-part archive - but still, the question remains...)

[Joe Schmoe]

I should add to the previous that (given what little I know about RAR, having never used it, just read about it), the primary attraction of RAR is the ability to run scripts and stuff as part of the unpacking process (i.e., it is more of an installer than just a mere archiver), but the funny thing about this, of course, is that that functionality be turned off (disabled) in a non-Windows version [*].

[*] For "security reasons" ...

[mcgyver83]

I usually receive rar files so I have to deal with them and I cannot choose the packing algorithm.
I'm not moving file to the pc because it will take a while copying them via samba (raspberry is connect via wifi dongle to the network).

[Joe Schmoe]

I usually receive rar files so I have to deal with them and I cannot choose the packing algorithm.
I'm not moving file to the pc because it will take a while copying them via samba (raspberry is connect via wifi dongle to the network).

OK - that all makes sense. The key being that it is *not* a "one-time deal".

[mcgyver83]

unfortunately no
Ok, I'll try compiling winrar sources.

Thanks

[mcgyver83]

As RaTTuS wrote on Sep.23, the files should be named
x.rar
x.part2
x.part3

No, they are named correctly. They can be either .partN.rar, or old-style: .rar .r00 .r01…

The problem is that the unrar implementation in package unrar-free does not support multipart archives. http://gna.org/bugs/?723

The "proper" versions of rar/unrar are not free software and presumably are not available for ARMv6 with hard float ABI. It may be possible to compile unrar (but not rar) yourself from source. http://www.rarlab.com/rar_add.htm

A better option is to stop using rar. It is very slow and does not have particularly good compression.

I'm trying to compile from the sources suggested by Rattus, http://www.rarlab.com/rar/unrarsrc-5.0.12.tar.gz
I extracted the sources, run "make".... after how can I install compiled software and delete sources?
Sorry but it's the first compile I made