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Rar? I thought rar only had binaries so no fdroid app could extract them.
There is a free version, its called
unrar
and preinstalled on many Linux Distros. You can only uncompress, which is 200% enough for that stupid format XDAccording to Wikipedia there are two versions of
unrar
, a free one which supports older versions of RAR, and the proprietary RARLab one that supports newer versions.There's also a tool called The Unarchiver that supports RARv5 although it has been bought out and is currently proprietary, the free version is still available. Theoretically it could be used to provide RAR decompression for apps such as this one.
Yeah idk why youd wanna use rar
The only thing I can think of is sending large files by breaking them up (r00, r01 etc), like how a lot of movie torrents come packaged. Just now thinking about it though: can
zip
do that too?Yes, Info-ZIP can do that, it's called a split archive.
man zip
and-s
splitsize or--split-size
splitsizeIn that case yeah, I have no use for rar only unrar.
"its" means "the thing of it" right?
Wait a second, I think you are correct, I just read the changelog from f-droid and they removed rar from the f-droid version.