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never-aways
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imotgm
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 Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2005 12:11 am Post subject:
Re: Is unrar a pay program now?
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On Tue, 27 Sep 2005 20:57:27 -0400, djin wrote:
This clearly says "rar-3.4.1". It is the complete rar package, not just
"unrar". It is an older version than the one at www.rarlab.com, and is
shareware, so you have 40 days to try, before you buy.
It means this is the one you want, it's the newest version, and because of
some unclear wording in the license, they have put it in the PLF
repository.
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I see http://www.rarlab.com/download.htm has Rar 3.5 for Linux, but all I
want is something to decompress rar files, not create them. I don't want
to have to pay $29 just so I can decompress a file every couple of months.
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This is the newest complete program, and is only needed if you want to
create rar files, as well as unrar them. It has the same 40 trial period
as the older version above, before you have to decide whether to pay, or
uninstall.
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imotgm
"Lost? Lost? I've never been lost... Been a tad confused for a
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Gireesh K. Bhat
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| Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2005 12:12 am Post subject:
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On Tue, 27 Sep 2005 20:57:27 -0400, djin wrote:
| Quote: | I have Mandrake 10.1 Powerpack and it doesn't seem to include unrar.
I went to rpmfind and found two possible unrar rpms for Mandrake 10.1.
SNIP |
Check out http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ and configure all your sources
(main,contrib,plf-free, plf-nonfree) etc. Also take a few moments to
read up on urpmi and start using it rather than looking for rpms in
different places.
Best Regards
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never-aways
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| Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2005 2:01 pm Post subject:
Re: Is unrar a pay program now?
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On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 02:12:25 +0000, Gireesh K. Bhat wrote:
| Quote: | On Tue, 27 Sep 2005 20:57:27 -0400, djin wrote:
I have Mandrake 10.1 Powerpack and it doesn't seem to include unrar.
I went to rpmfind and found two possible unrar rpms for Mandrake 10.1.
SNIP
The one here
http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/2126857/com/unrar-3.50-0.1.101plf.i586.rpm.html
says "This is in PLF for it\'s unclear license."
What does that mean?
Check out http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ and configure all your sources
(main,contrib,plf-free, plf-nonfree) etc. Also take a few moments to
read up on urpmi and start using it rather than looking for rpms in
different places.
Best Regards
Gireesh
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Thanks. I'm learning about Mandrake a bit at a time.
I'll take a look at http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ |
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never-aways
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| Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2005 2:08 pm Post subject:
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On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 02:11:28 +0000, imotgm wrote:
| Quote: | On Tue, 27 Sep 2005 20:57:27 -0400, djin wrote:
I have Mandrake 10.1 Powerpack and it doesn't seem to include unrar.
I went to rpmfind and found two possible unrar rpms for Mandrake 10.1.
However the one here
http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/1691899/com/rar-3.4.1-1.101mcnl.i586.rpm.html
says it's only for 40 days. I thought the simple command line version
of unrar was free.
This clearly says "rar-3.4.1". It is the complete rar package, not just
"unrar". It is an older version than the one at www.rarlab.com, and is
shareware, so you have 40 days to try, before you buy.
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You're right. It _does_ say "rar-3.4.1" and not unrar.
It came up with a search for unrar and I didn't think to examine
it more closely than to check the Mandrake version it was for.
I eventually found a definition of PLF at wikipedia.
Penguin Liberation Front
One of the better acronyms. :)
| Quote: | I see http://www.rarlab.com/download.htm has Rar 3.5 for Linux, but all I
want is something to decompress rar files, not create them. I don't want
to have to pay $29 just so I can decompress a file every couple of months.
This is the newest complete program, and is only needed if you want to
create rar files, as well as unrar them. It has the same 40 trial period
as the older version above, before you have to decide whether to pay, or
uninstall.
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Thank you for the explanation. |
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imotgm
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| Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2005 6:39 pm Post subject:
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On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 16:08:48 +0000, djin wrote:
| Quote: | I eventually found a definition of PLF at wikipedia.
Penguin Liberation Front
One of the better acronyms. 
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Indeed. One of my favorites.
| Quote: | Thank you for the explanation.
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You're welcome.
Just a friendly reminder, MDK 10.1 support stops on 9/30/2005, so make
plans for an upgrade. :-)
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imotgm
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never-aways
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| Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2005 7:39 pm Post subject:
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On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 02:12:25 +0000, Gireesh K. Bhat wrote:
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Check out http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ and configure all your sources
(main,contrib,plf-free, plf-nonfree) etc. Also take a few moments to
read up on urpmi and start using it rather than looking for rpms in
different places.
Best Regards
Gireesh
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Re the http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ fill-in-the-blanks -
I'm running 32-bit version of Mandrake 10.1 powerpack on a
computer with an AMD64 processor. I'm guessing I want to
go by the Mandrake version being 32-bit rather than the
64 bit processor. Right?
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BR
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| Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2005 8:44 pm Post subject:
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On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 21:39:42 +0000, djin wrote:
| Quote: | Re the http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ fill-in-the-blanks - I'm running
32-bit version of Mandrake 10.1 powerpack on a computer with an AMD64
processor. I'm guessing I want to go by the Mandrake version being
32-bit rather than the 64 bit processor. Right?
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Gopher
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Joined: 29 Sep 2005
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| Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2005 8:43 pm Post subject:
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imotgm wrote:
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Just a friendly reminder, MDK 10.1 support stops on 9/30/2005, so make
plans for an upgrade. :-)
For the desktop (KDE, Gnome, etc) it ends tomorrow, base kernel and other |
programs will get updates to 28 Feb 06.
http://www.mandriva.com/security/productlifetime
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imotgm
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| Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2005 10:36 pm Post subject:
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On Thu, 29 Sep 2005 22:43:23 +0000, Gopher wrote:
| Quote: | imotgm wrote:
Just a friendly reminder, MDK 10.1 support stops on 9/30/2005, so make
plans for an upgrade. :-)
For the desktop (KDE, Gnome, etc) it ends tomorrow, base kernel and other
programs will get updates to 28 Feb 06.
http://www.mandriva.com/security/productlifetime
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Thanks for the clarification.
With the once a year upgrade schedule Mandriva has adopted, and the
fact that 2006 will be released next month, it's still a good time to
start planning for an upgrade. I'm still running MDK 10.0, and 10.1 with
10.0 about to be replaced by 2006. 10.1 will be left as a backup OS,
probably until 2007 shows up, and as my main desktop until I get all the
bugs worked out of 2006.
I'm in no big hurry to get rid of 10.1, as it's been the most trouble free
Mandrake version I've had. I did say plan, not panic. ;-)
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