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Bug#619602: RFP: theunarchiver -- archive extractor with built-in support for multiple formats



Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist


* Package name    : theunarchiver
  Version         : 2.6
  Upstream Author : Dag Ågren <paracelsus@gmail.com>
* URL             : http://wakaba.c3.cx/s/apps/unarchiver.html
* License         : LGPL
  Programming Lang: Objective C
  Description     : archive extractor with built-in support for multiple formats

The Unarchiver extracts archives in Zip, Tar-GZip, Tar-BZip2, RAR,
7-zip, LhA, StuffIt and many other old and obscure formats.

In particular it supports extracting RAR v3 archive using a completely
free, LGPL'd implementation (while other archive managers usually rely
on the non-free library from the RAR authors).

It provides two commands:
* lsar to list an archive content
* unar to extract the archive


The webpage provide this set of instructions to build the package,
which works for me under Debian Squeeze:

  sudo apt-get install build-essential libgnustep-base-dev libz-dev libbz2-dev libssl-dev libicu-dev
  cd XADMaster
  make -f Makefile.linux

I didn't try to build the GUI portion, which is aimed at OS X.


The package contains an unused copy of the proprietary unrar library
(in the BadLicense/ directory), which should be removed before
packaging.  The free code is in XADMaster/XADRAR* .

-- 
Sylvain



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