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(Android) ZipXtract| An open source app to extract rar, zip, tar, bz2, gz, 7z, xz, jar and z etc (encrypted .zip & .7z supported) (f-droid.org)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Rar? I thought rar only had binaries so no fdroid app could extract them.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (3 children)

There is a free version, its called unrar and preinstalled on many Linux Distros. You can only uncompress, which is 200% enough for that stupid format XD

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

According to Wikipedia there are two versions of unrar, a free one which supports older versions of RAR, and the proprietary RARLab one that supports newer versions.

There's also a tool called The Unarchiver that supports RARv5 although it has been bought out and is currently proprietary, the free version is still available. Theoretically it could be used to provide RAR decompression for apps such as this one.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah idk why youd wanna use rar

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

The only thing I can think of is sending large files by breaking them up (r00, r01 etc), like how a lot of movie torrents come packaged. Just now thinking about it though: can zip do that too?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yes, Info-ZIP can do that, it's called a split archive. man zip and -s splitsize or --split-size splitsize

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

In that case yeah, I have no use for rar only unrar.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's* called unrar

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

"its" means "the thing of it" right?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Wait a second, I think you are correct, I just read the changelog from f-droid and they removed rar from the f-droid version.