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I have installed both rar and unrar using apt-install but I am still not able to use archive manager for opening the archive file.. I have also tried installing p7zip(p7zip-full and p7zip) but no improvements...

However, when I use command-line for extracting the files from the archive using unrar or rar the command executes successfully...

Is there any other open source software I should install for viewing the contents of the SFX archive or what else should I install to view the same in the archive manager..

Thanks in advance...

Jorge Castro
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Apoorv Saxena
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There are a few possibilities that I can think of, the obvious one being wine which should be able to deal with it as all that is needed to extract it is internal to the .exe itself. However both 7z and rar are able to create sfx archives and nowhere does it say they can open them. Another possibility is it's password protected.

To install wine in Ubuntu hardy 8.04 I would recommend installing from their ppa at launchpad to do this open software sources from the administration menusoftware sources add source and add these two lines

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-wine/ppa/ubuntu hardy main 
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-wine/ppa/ubuntu hardy main

then open a terminal and type sudo apt-get update then once this has completed sudo apt-get install wine

Zanna
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Allan
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