I have a rar file that can't be extracted with lxqt-archiver

[glu8716]

I have the following password protected rar file (this is the output of the file command)

cvs.rar: RAR archive data, v5

I'm not able to extract it with lxqt-archiver, as it throws the error Could not find the volume: cvs.r00

I can extract it without any problems with:

1. Arqiver
2. unrar x cvs.rar
3. 7z x cvs.rar

This archive contains sensitive information. Unfortunately I can't share it for testing purpose. What it contains is a bunch of .url and .mp4 files with chinese names. I'll try to provide any needed information if possible.

System Information

• Distribution & Version: Artix
• Kernel: 6.8.2
• Qt Version: 5.15.13
• libqtxdg Version: 3.12.0
• lxqt-build-tools Version: 0.13.0
• Package version: 0.9.1

[tsujan]

Arqiver uses 7z to open rar archives.

The source file fr-command-rar.c (taken from engrampa) shows that lxqt-archiver uses rar, and only if it doesn't exist, it uses unrar. So, I guess the problem may be in rar.

[glu8716]

I didn't have the rar package installed as I thought unrar was more than enough to extract packages. Installing rar fixes the problem though. Maybe there's something wrong in lxqt-archiver using unrar?

[tsujan]

Maybe there's something wrong in lxqt-archiver using unrar?

That's possible, but then it should have been inherited from Engrampa. It needs more investigation (we've already fixed another inherited problem).

[tsujan]

Another approach can be forgetting about rar and doing the job with 7z.