What's a good program to unrar, unzip a file?

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jacatone · #1 Post by **jacatone** » Thu 31 May 2012, 23:19

In Windows I use Winrar which will uncompress just about any compressed file format. Tried the zip program in PL, but it doesn't extract or unzip any file I've tried. Anyone have a good alternative?. Thanks.

#2 Post by **Makoto** » Thu 31 May 2012, 23:45

Peazip, maybe? (http://peazip.sourceforge.net/; there are a few pets and sfs versions of it on the forum, though I usually just use the 'portable' Linux version).

postfs1 · #3 Post by **postfs1** » Fri 01 Jun 2012, 01:02

I use this: peazip-3.6.LINUX.GTK2-1.i586.rpm with icon from here: icons-slick-3.5.9-1ark.i586.rpm(Arklinux-2008).

wingevil · #4 Post by **wingevil** » Fri 01 Jun 2012, 04:15

I take always unrar in a terminal. It's very fast and handles password-protected archives as well as multi-files archives. Just type

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unrar x <filename>

and you're ready for taking off...

#5 Post by **Makoto** » Fri 01 Jun 2012, 04:30

unrar only handles .rar archives, though, last I checked.

The OP is looking for a program to handle more than one archive type.

Monsie · #6 Post by **Monsie** » Fri 01 Jun 2012, 04:37

Hi jacatone,

Barry K has recently added support for .rar files to pupzip. You can get the update from Woof. See his blog post at http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=02828 for the specific details.

Monsie

wingevil · #7 Post by **wingevil** » Fri 01 Jun 2012, 04:47

Makoto wrote:unrar only handles .rar archives, though, last I checked. The OP is looking for a program to handle more than one archive type.

for ZIP-archives I take 7z in the cli

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7z x <archive-file>

Sylvander · #8 Post by **Sylvander** » Fri 01 Jun 2012, 05:49

I use Xfe...

See HERE where it says:
"Create archives (tar, compress, zip, gzip, bzip2, xz and 7zip formats are supported)
Extract archives (tar, compress, zip, gzip, bzip2, xz, lzh, rar, ace, arj and 7zip formats are supported)"

It's really easy to right-click on an item [or highlighted list of items], and [for example] choose "Extract to here".

666philb · #9 Post by **666philb** » Fri 01 Jun 2012, 07:21

xarchive which is in puppy will do zips and rars, the problem is that it's not usually associated with .rar & .zip files, so you need to right click on a .zip and .rar, and choose 'set run action' and type

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xarchive "$@"

into the command box.

rars & zips should then extract when clicked on

eztuxer · #10 Post by **eztuxer** » Fri 31 Aug 2012, 15:56

Thanks 666philb.
Works fine.
Any tips on how to bypass pesky passwords encrypted in some files ?

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