05-22-2011, 04:41 PM | #1 |
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viewing RAR on Linux
I just moved my Calibre from MAC to Lubuntu 10.10.
When I try to VIEW a RAR file, a GUI for file-roller opens up. I suspect this is because Calibre is using xdg-open and xdg-open runs file-roller for application/x-rar. Note that file-roller just opens a GUI that shows the contents of the RAR, it doesn't automatically extract anything. I suspect it might work if I find out how to map xdg-open to /usr/bin/unrar, but that's just a guess. Anyone with a better idea? tlc |
05-22-2011, 04:44 PM | #2 |
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BTW, I'm using the binary install. This is not the libunrar.so issue. That lib is present in /opt/calibre.
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05-22-2011, 05:02 PM | #3 |
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What do you expect viewing a rar file to do?
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05-22-2011, 05:13 PM | #4 |
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On the MAC it opened the calibre ebook-viewer "[RAR]" with whatever was inside.
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05-22-2011, 05:15 PM | #5 |
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Go to preferences->behavior and tell calibre to open RAR with its viewer.
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05-22-2011, 06:13 PM | #6 |
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Thanks!
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