Hello everybody.

I have created a Debian VM to run Mystic, but I am experiencing a few difficulties when trying to uncompress the Mystic binaries from the website: they always fail.

I am using unrar-free to unpack them. Any hints on what could be the cause?

Flavio

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Hello, Flavio Bessa.
On 27/12/20 14:07 you wrote:

Hello everybody.
I have created a Debian VM to run Mystic, but I am
experiencing a few difficulties when trying to uncompress the
Mystic binaries from the website: they always fail.
I am using unrar-free to unpack them. Any hints on what could be
the cause? Flavio

Try with this:

ftn@balabam:~$ dpkg -l | grep "rar "
ii rar 2:5.4.0+dfsg.1-0.1 amd64
Archiver for .rar files

RAR 5.40 Copyright (c) 1993-2016 Alexander Roshal 15 Aug 2016
Trial version Type RAR -? for help

It should be available through the standard debian apt repository.

Let me know if it works. ;)

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On 27 Dec 2020, Flavio Bessa said the following...

I have created a Debian VM to run Mystic, but I am experiencing
a fewdifficulties when trying to uncompress the Mystic binaries from the website:they always fail.

I just tried to decompress it using unrar, unrar-free & 7z and all three failed on Linux. It does seem to work fine with 7zip on Windows though.

Jay

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Hello Fabio.

27 Dec 20 19:02, you wrote to me:

Hello, Flavio Bessa.
On 27/12/20 14:07 you wrote:

Try with this:

ftn@balabam:~$ dpkg -l | grep "rar "
ii rar 2:5.4.0+dfsg.1-0.1
amd64
Archiver for .rar files

Thanks for the tip, but unfortunately it is not there:

/tmp$ dpkg -l | grep "rar "
ii unrar-free 1:0.0.1+cvs20140707-4 amd64 Unarchiver for .rar files

It should be available through the standard debian apt repository.

Let me know if it works. ;)

It seems that the package has been obsoleted:

/tmp$ sudo apt-get install rar
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package rar is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Package 'rar' has no installation candidate



Flavio

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Re: unrar-free
By: Flavio Bessa to All on Sun Dec 27 2020 02:07 pm

I have created a Debian VM to run Mystic, but I am experiencing a few difficulties when trying to uncompress the Mystic binaries from the website: they always fail.

I am using unrar-free to unpack them. Any hints on what could be the cause?

I wonder what version that unrar-free is, it may not have the "stuff" needed to unpack a rar archive created by a recent version of rar.

Depending on your target system you can grab a recent version of rar from..

https://rarlab.com/download.htm

Or if you just want to decompress rar files grab the unrar executables or source from..

https://rarlabs.com/rar_add.htm

On my slackware box I just extract the source to a temporary directory, change to that directory and run "make" followed by "sudo make install" and I am good to go.

Ttyl :-),
Al

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Hello, Flavio Bessa.
On 27/12/20 18:41 you wrote:

It should be available through the standard debian apt
repository. Let me know if it works. ;)

It seems that the package has been obsoleted:

Did you have enabled the "non-free" repository of debian? ;)

https://packages.debian.org/buster/rar

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Hello Al.

27 Dec 20 15:30, you wrote to me:

Depending on your target system you can grab a recent version of rar from..

https://rarlab.com/download.htm

Or if you just want to decompress rar files grab the unrar executables
or source from..

https://rarlabs.com/rar_add.htm

On my slackware box I just extract the source to a temporary
directory, change to that directory and run "make" followed by "sudo
make install" and I am good to go.

Thanks for the tips! At the end of the day I have managed to open it using the xarchiver package.

Flavio

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Hello Fabio.

28 Dec 20 06:45, you wrote to me:

Did you have enabled the "non-free" repository of debian? ;)

https://packages.debian.org/buster/rar

Probably not, but I managed to open it using the xarchive package.

Flavio

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Re: unrar-free
By: Flavio Bessa to Al on Sat Jan 02 2021 03:32 pm

Thanks for the tips! At the end of the day I have managed to open it
using the xarchiver package.

I also use xarchiver on the desktop to handle rar archives.

What OS is giving you trouble with rar archives?

Ttyl :-),
Al

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On 27 Dec 2020, Flavio Bessa said the following...

I am using unrar-free to unpack them. Any hints on what could be the cause?

If you use the Linux version of RAR from the RAR home page, you should have
no problems.

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