Why only RAR files

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Hello, i know this is not really an issue, but why do you use RAR files,
knowing that people using linux will have troubles unraring them.
RAR is proprietary and not well supported in Linux.
Could you please use ZIP files or something else?
Thank you

Original issue reported on code.google.com by moone...@gmail.com on 23 Jun 2009 at 8:50

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Install unrar command
Under Debian Linux, you need to type apt-get as follows to install unrar 
program:

# apt-get install unrar

If you are using Fedora core Linux then use yum command as follows (see 
discussion 
below):

# yum install unrar

If you are using FreeBSD, use:

# pkg_add -v -r unrar

If any of above, methods is not working for you, download binary package from 
official rarlab site:

$ cd /tmp
$ wget http://www.rarlab.com/rar/rarlinux-3.6.0.tar.gz

Untar file

$ tar -zxvf rarlinux-3.6.0.tar.gz

Both unrar and rar commands are located in rar sub-directory. Just go to rar 
directory:

$ cd rar
$ ./unrar

Now copy rar and unrar to /bin directory:

# cp rar unrar /bin

How to use unrar
unrar command supports various options below are common options that you need 
to use 
everyday.

Task: To open rar (unpack) file in current directory type command:
$ unrar e file.rar

Please note that replace file.rar filename with your actual filename.

Task: List (l) file inside rar archive:
$ unrar l file.rar

Task: To extract (x) files with full path type command:
$ unrar x file.rar

(D) To test (t) integrity of archive, file type command:

$ unrar t file.rar

Original comment by george.e...@gmail.com on 23 Jun 2009 at 4:50

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I think, the question would be bit more "why RAR ?", since many other free and 
open
source archiving type would fit and wouldn't need any additional software to
unpackage it ? Why not .zip, .tar.gz, .tar.bz2 or even more simply .iso.bz2 ? It
would reduce the above explanation to "gunzip android.iso.gz"

Even if the idea of android live cd, is very good, it's a bit weird to package a
totally free and open source system in a closed source file type.

Original comment by lsibi...@gmail.com on 23 Jun 2009 at 6:00

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liveandroid v0.2 split with freeware HJSplit(http://www.freebyte.com/hjsplit/ or
http://www.freebytesoftware.com/download/hjsplit.zip), you can join it. 

Original comment by liveandr...@gmail.com on 6 Jul 2009 at 4:40

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