Sevenzip does not support extracting rar archives? #3355
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l installed 7z using the following command, then unzipped the rar file, and got the error. I looked at the commit and it seems that rar support was intentionally removed. So neither creation nor extraction is supported?
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You can open RAR files and list them but RAR decompression is not supported since those parts are not fully open source compatibile and we ship open source software in homebrew-core (like many other open source package managers). For RAR creation, 7-zip cannot do this under any circumstance regardless of how it is compiled as it is legally not allowed to. RAR is very tightly controlled in terms of copyright and patents. |
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If you need RAR functionality, there are two options I can think of:
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You can open RAR files and list them but RAR decompression is not supported since those parts are not fully open source compatibile and we ship open source software in homebrew-core (like many other open source package managers).
For RAR creation, 7-zip cannot do this under any circumstance regardless of how it is compiled as it is legally not allowed to. RAR is very tightly controlled in terms of copyright and patents.