cork1958 Posted July 30, 2013 Share Posted July 30, 2013 What could be the issue with NOT being able to extract a file on this machine but when I copy that file onto a usb drive and try it on another Debian setup, it works perfectly? As far as I know, I have both machines in question setup EXACTLY the same. Both are brand new installs of the latest Debian Wheezy. Thank you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haggis Veteran Posted July 30, 2013 Veteran Share Posted July 30, 2013 what compression is it? zip/tar/rar etc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mindovermaster Moderator Posted July 30, 2013 Moderator Share Posted July 30, 2013 What are you using to extract it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cork1958 Posted July 30, 2013 Author Share Posted July 30, 2013 The particular file was a rar and I used both xarchiver and squeeze. I've removed and reinstalled xarchiver twice also. That's my preferred program. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karl L. Posted July 30, 2013 Share Posted July 30, 2013 I have not used xarchiver before, but most graphical archive/unarchive programs in Linux use the respective command line tools for each archive type to perform the compression or extraction. In Debian Wheezy xarchiver merely suggests the rar package because xarchiver is in main but rar is in non-free. Therefore you probably do not have the unrar package installed on the machine that fails to open the archive. Other graphical archive programs should exhibit similar behavior to xarchiver because they all rely on the proprietary rar software to extract that archive type. $ aptitude show xarchiver Package: xarchiver State: not installed Version: 1:0.5.2+20090319+dfsg-4.1 Priority: optional Section: x11 Maintainer: Christian H?bschi <huebschi.christian@gmail.com> Architecture: amd64 Uncompressed Size: 1,523 k Depends: libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.12.4), libc6 (>= 2.3), libcairo2 (>= 1.2.4), libfontconfig1 (>= 2.9.0), libfreetype6 (>= 2.2.1), libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 (>= 2.22.0), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.14.0), libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.10.0), libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0) Recommends: xdg-utils, arj, bzip2, rpm, p7zip-full, unzip, zip Suggests: lha, rar Description: GTK+ frontend for most used compression formats Xarchiver is a Desktop Environment independent GTK+ 2 frontend for manipulating 7z, arj, bzip2, gzip, rar, tar, zip, and RPM files. It allows you to create archives and add, extract, and delete files from them. Password protected archives in the arj, 7z, rar, and zip formats are supported. Homepage: http://xarchiver.sourceforge.net/ You should either install rar and unrar or install xarchiver with all suggested packages. Running both of the commands below would not hurt, but you only need one or the other (as long as xarchiver is already installed, otherwise you need the second). $ sudo apt-get install rar unrar $ sudo apt-get install --install-suggests xarchiver Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cork1958 Posted August 2, 2013 Author Share Posted August 2, 2013 Thanks xorangekiller. Haven't forgotten about this but haven't had time to work on that computer in a couple days. Sure seems odd that I got xarchiver/squeeze to both work on 3 other computers without going through changes!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cork1958 Posted August 5, 2013 Author Share Posted August 5, 2013 I reformatted this particular computer and installed Windows 7 for customer. Wheezy was just having to many simple issues on this system, that shouldn't have never been issues, compared to the other 4 I've recently setup. Thanks for the help though. Learned something from this simple issue!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mindovermaster Moderator Posted August 5, 2013 Moderator Share Posted August 5, 2013 Learned something from this simple issue!! That its not as simple as you thought? :laugh: Growled 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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