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Maverick340
11-09-2007, 07:39 PM
I am looking for a GUI based uncompressing.compressing tool for RAR files on Xubuntu. I tried 7-zip but it dosent show up as being installed (I installed from synaptic ). Then i downloaded Squeeze but i am unable to complaine and install the source code. The error i get is

aman@yaj-laptop:~/Desktop/squeeze-0.2.1/squeeze-0.2.1$ sudo ./configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... mawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking how to create a ustar tar archive... gnutar
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name...
configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details.

ANy suggestions ?

kalpik
11-09-2007, 10:59 PM
sudo apt-get install rar unrar

Maverick340
12-09-2007, 03:53 PM
i know whats thats meant to do , but not so sure ! enlighten me :)

Edit : how do i handle password protected files ... DONT TELL ME TO USE COMMAND LINE , please !!!

Second EDIT : okay , did it using the terminal , i typed unrar and it explained how to use it :p

kalpik
12-09-2007, 10:31 PM
You dont need the terminal! Just right click and extract here ;)

QwertyManiac
13-09-2007, 05:08 PM
Haha yeah, Linux isn't as difficult as you sometimes think it is. But if the thought makes you use the terminal, well and good :p

praka123
13-09-2007, 09:12 PM
synaptic?

QwertyManiac
14-09-2007, 06:10 PM
Heh praka123, his problem's solved. :)

P.s. - (To Author) Your default XFCE Archive Extractor will now automatically support RAR files :)