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Extract .rpm's with xarchiver

#1 Post by jrb »

Recently I needed a missing lib, libgnome-2.so.0. I did a google search and could only find it in rpm packages. I downloaded a fedora package, libgnome-2.24.1-7.fc10.i386.rpm, and clicked on it to extract.
An error has occurred opening the RPM file. Suggestion: install unrpm.pup DotPup package, which contains an alternative RPM extraction program, that PupZip will automatically use if present.
What a bother. :x Then it occurred to me, I have ttuuxxx's xarchiver installed, why not give it a try? I opened the file with xarchiver, clicked on extract and bingo, totally extracted. :D

Thanks ttuuxxx, J
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#2 Post by panzerpuppy »

Yeah,that works, but how to add .RAR, .7z and .DEB support to Xarchiver ?

I don't like bloating the Pup with WINE just to use 7-zip for Windows to extract these archives :(
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#3 Post by norsiwel »

Peazip portable does all that, its about 21 mb extracted, but can be run from a portable device, usb stick, etc.
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#4 Post by jrb »

panzerpuppy,
how to add .RAR, .7z and .DEB support to Xarchiver ?
If you go to the xarchiver thread you will see there are .pets there to add rar and 7zip capabilites. I use rar quite a bit, used to use winrar with wine, but xarchiver handles them nicely, although I miss doing groups of files to and from individual rar files.

norsiwel,
Peazip portable does all that
Is that the windows based portable app? Do you run it with wine?
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#5 Post by norsiwel »

http://peazip.sourceforge.net/

There is a windows version, but I use the native linux version, available as .tgz just extract it to any drive, including a usb stick and it has all the needed files to run.
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#6 Post by jrb »

norsiwel,
I use the native linux version
Cool! I'll check it out.

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#7 Post by panzerpuppy »

PeaZip rocks! :)

(I finally found an archiver for Linux that can extract .ACE archives)
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#8 Post by panzerpuppy »

If you go to the xarchiver thread you will see there are .pets there to add rar and 7zip capabilites. I use rar quite a bit, used to use winrar with wine, but xarchiver handles them nicely, although I miss doing groups of files to and from individual rar files.
Nice, but still no .DEB support :( (the ability to extract DEB archives is very important if you repackage stuff)
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#9 Post by dejan555 »

If you have unrpm and undeb installed you may use deb2pet & rpm2pet for repackaging, also xarchiver had deb support in puppy 4.1 and below, I don't know why it doesn't work in 4.2?
puppy.b0x.me stuff mirrored [url=https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_Mb589v0iCXNnhSZWRwd3R2UWs]HERE[/url] or [url=http://archive.org/details/Puppy_Linux_puppy.b0x.me_mirror]HERE[/url]
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#10 Post by giorgiotani »

panzerpuppy wrote:Nice, but still no .DEB support :( (the ability to extract DEB archives is very important if you repackage stuff)
PeaZip can extract .DEB files, I hope it can be useful.
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