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List:       kde-linux
Subject:    Re: [kde-linux] No extract menu for rar files
From:       James Richard Tyrer <tyrerj () acm ! org>
Date:       2005-04-27 4:30:31
Message-ID: 426F1567.3040304 () acm ! org
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Robin Atwood wrote:
> On Monday 25 April 2005 05:52, you wrote:
> 
>> Robin Atwood wrote:
>> 
>>> Once upon a time I could right-click a rar file and get an 
>>> Extract... sub-menu. Now it's gone, so how do I reinstate it? The
>>>  file association entry is identical to bz2, etc, which do have 
>>> the sub-menu.
>> 
>> First, do you have an archive icon for the file?
>> 
>> If so, then the MIME type exists.
> 
> 
> The mime type exists because I defined it.

Normally, KDE should have that mime type.

> I have an FC3 dustro with a rar-3.2 rpm. There is no unrar, the usage
>  is 'rar e file.rar' to extract a file. I have quite clearly stated 
> that the Ark preview menu item is present and indeed will, if you 
> persevere with the Ark dialog, extract a file. What I lack is the 
> handy Extract sub-menu item.

It is hard to guess what RedHat has done to modify KDE (or anything
else).  However, stock KDE uses: "unrar" and if you don't have the
executable, then you don't get the right click menus to use it.

-- 
JRT
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