EDIT: Putting this at the top because not everyone is seeing what I actually need. I can unpack the rar archive just fine. What I can’t do (on arm) is add to/update the files in the rar archive. I have unrar already installed. What I can’t install is the rar package to create/update rar archives.
So I’ve been banging my head against the wall for about half an hour trying to install the rar package from the multiverse repository on an Ubuntu 23.10 vm I have running on my m1 mac mini. I finally ended up on https://pkgs.org and searched up rar to see if I could download it directly instead of using apt.
And it was there I realized there’s no arm version of rar.
Side note, any recommendations for an arm utility that handles rar files? I already have unrar-free installed, but what I need is something to update/add files to existing rar files.
Worst case scenario I unrar them and then repackage them with tar or zip, but if I can just work with the rar archive, I’d prefer that.
Edit: I got excited for a second remembering that I’ve got rar installed via homebrew on that same m1 mac, but when I tried to install homebrew in the vm, I learned that homebrew doesn’t officially support arm.
Try p7zip, that has a RAR plugin that should support arm. If I’m able to download and run it on my phone in termux, surely there’s a version for Ubuntu as well!
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7z iyou can check what plugins your p7zip build comes with, it should list Rar.so. Extract with7z x archive.rar, add files with7z a archive.rar file.txt.Thank you!! I will try that!!
It can only do that with the unfree unrar plugin. Do not expect your distro to ship it by default due to that issue.
I wasn’t aware of that. At least it proves that there’s an aarch64 version of the plugin out there somewhere.
p7zip seems to work with rat files on Ubuntu (amd64), so I’d expect it to work on aarch64 as well if the license is the problem. I was expecting the issue to be some kind of handcrafted, unportable assembly.