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Automated installation of the Microsoft IE App Compat virtual machines
http://xdissent.github.com/ievms
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Why unarchiver? #144

Open linuxd3v opened 11 years ago

linuxd3v commented 11 years ago

Why unarchiver? Seems to be only rar files there. Why not just unrar? On some Linuxes it's not readily available package. Arch users have to install unarchiver from AUR - something I'd typically rather avoid. Any chance to just use unrar - unless I'm missing the point?

mthuurne commented 10 years ago

I'm using openSUSE and there is no "unar" package there. Info-ZIP ("unzip" command) will not extract the ZIP file since it uses format features/extensions that Info-ZIP does not support. I could extract it fine with 7zip though ("7z" command from the "p7zip" package). I think 7zip is a more commonly packaged extractor than Unarchiver; maybe support for 7zip could be added?

Today's version of ievms.sh doesn't download any RAR files, only ZIP files. The only RAR files I encountered were the downloads from microsoft.com, which are outdated compared to the ones offered from modern.ie.

miquelfire commented 10 years ago

@mthuurne The ones from modern.ie are rar files as well...

mthuurne commented 10 years ago

@miquelfire Not the ones that ievms.sh downloads: the string "rar" doesn't even occur in that script.

mthuurne commented 10 years ago

I just saw that issue #136 not only suggests 7zip, but offers a pull request for its support as well. So I think integrating that patch would also provide a solution for this issue.

wyuenho commented 10 years ago

The mac has unrar available too. We should definitely get rid of unar. It's not even installing on OSX 10.9

malthejorgensen commented 10 years ago

:+1: I had similar problems on Arch Linux, where unar is not readily available through the Arch package manager pacman.

It is however in the AUR under unarchiver.

xdissent commented 10 years ago

@wyuenho It's unar not unrar. It installed fine for me this weekend on both 10.8 and 10.9. What error were you seeing when it wasn't installing for you?

@malthejorgensen I came here this morning to mention the Arch name too, thanks! =)

wyuenho commented 10 years ago

@xdissent I know it's unar and not unrar. I'm saying you COULD use unrar or 7z or whatever more common in place of unar. It just tried the script again and it works fine now. When I tried a couple of weeks ago, it just failed without any error messages. I tried wiping ~/.ievms, still no luck. I had to comment out the check_unar call at the end and manually download unar and put it into my path to get the script working.

xdissent commented 10 years ago

@wyuenho Gotcha. Originally the VMs were only distributed as zips, not rars. Then some were .cabs and .archive or some other nonsense. Then only some of them were converted to rar,. Looking now, it seems there are rar versions for each, but they're self-extracting (.sfx) which is bleh. Long story short, it's much simpler to rely on the zips. unar is still necessary due to the large file size of the zips, but at least it works consistently and no one has to completely redownload anything to get a different format.

aking1012 commented 9 years ago

There isn't an "exists" check for non-Darwin either. The bash script just says "If on Darwin, install. else, bitch until you remove two lines from the installer and keep it from bailing out."