Unrar problem

[sorin7486]

I don't know what SAB or Hella is ... or what you are talking about... I don't have either of those installed and unrar still doesn't work .... any ideas ?

[raas]

@sorin

Where/how/why do you use unrar on your asus ?
Do you use it in a telnet session.
what command do you use? (unrar e filename.rar)

I use unar, or even better to say, I let SAB or Hella use unrar to unpack downloaded archives.

(SAB and Hella are binary newsreaders (for newsgroups). I usually download from newsservers. But because of the architecture of newsgroups. files are not posted as one whole file, but splitted into pieces (rar) like 90 rar files for one dvd. The program downloads all the archives and then joins (unpacks) them with unrar.)

[sorin7486]

I use unrar from the ssh session ... and things look like this:

[admin@(none) root]$ unrar
-sh: unrar: not found

any ideas ?

[raas]

Hi,

try to uninstall unrar

ipkg remove unrar


then install it again

ipkg install unrar


it seems to me that the package is not installed correctly, but we already know that.. right..

one way or the other, the asus doesn't know that unrar is installed.
maybe there is some missing link somewhere..
like .. you can call the unrar command from each location on the asus.. doesn't matter if you're in /opt or in /usr it just knows where to find the 'program file of unrar' when you issue the command unrar..
being a linux n00b, I don't know where that link is stored..
If you are saying unrar is installed, but somehow the command doesn't find the program, there must be something wrong with 'some link' ...
But I really don't know how to fix that. .

sorry..

Maybe our fellow forum members with more knowledge of *nix can give the answer ?

[sorin7486]

the thing is "ipkg install unrar" doesn't work for me ... I tried ipkg update but still nothing ... in order to install unrar I had to get the package from
http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/op...8-2_mipsel.ipk

and then run ipkg install ./unrar_3.6.8-2_mipsel.ipk

I did all that once again just now but it still doesn't work.

the linux part seems ok ... I mean I tried to run it from /opt/bin where it's installed, using ./unrar, and I still get the same thing...

[sorin7486]

ok.. any other alternative ? ... is there no way I can get my router to unrar ?

[thE_29]

Normaly, when you run a cmd and it says, cmd not found, it is not compiled for your OS version!

On my asus500gP i installed (just 4 mins ago, with ipkg install unrar) unrar and it works!

But when i tried to compile it, i got a segmentation fault from the g++..

[sorin7486]

I also have an wl-500gP and "ipkg install unrar" doesn't work ... it says it can't find the package...

[thE_29]

Try ipkg update to get new list! Maybe unrar isnt on your download/package list on your router!

[sorin7486]

already did that ... still not working ...
I had it installed by manually downloading the package file from the net ... but I was never able to do it automatically with ipkg install

edit:

I took a look at http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/un...l500g/Packages where the package list is updated from ... there is no trace of unrar there

[raas]

Hi Sorin,

Sorry to hear it still is not working for you.

after installing, do you have the unrar file present at /opt/bin ?
This is the location where the unrar file should be placed after installing. perhaps using unrar from that direct location should work.

A bit strange unrar isn't mentioned in the link you supplied.

This is a bit of a no-brainer, but you are using the right installation location (get packages from http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/op...g/cross/stable

[sorin7486]

I think that was the link I used to get the package from ... (I mentioned it in another post)... the strange thing is that I can't find unrar at that location anymore ... they probably took it down ?

edit: ooops... I forgot to wait for the whole page to load ... so yes ... I installed the package from that location successfully, and /opt/unrar was there... I tried even writing a shell script and run unrar from there (hoping something might be different ... ) but it's the same thing...

[raas]

Hi Sorin,

take a look at the following list: http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/op...table/Packages

unrar is mentioned here. This is the list supplied with the available packages especially for the asus. So it should be there.

I think you have the wrong location for the ipkg to download the packages.

your ipkg.conf should contain:

optware http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/optware/oleg/cross/stable

(the links look like each-other, but there are small differences.)

[sorin7486]

hmm...

I wasn't aware of this... optware ? I tried to add that to ipkg.conf but it says
WARNING: Ignoring unknown configuration parameter: optware http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/op...g/cross/stable

I have oleg's firmware ... is this ok for me ?

edit:
btw... wich ipkg.conf file are you talking about exacly ? I presume the one in /opt/etc right ?

[raas]

Hi Sorin,

i was giving that location out of my bare-head.

I have looked it up for you,

this is what /opt/etc/ipkg.conf should contain:

src/gz optware http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/optware/oleg/cross/stable
dest /opt/ /

Then it should work,

Good luck.