Re: Viewing contents of AR archive in KDE

2011-12-06 Thread Iuri Guilherme dos Santos Martins
Well, maybe it could be an issue with Ark itself, you have lightweight options you could test, like XArchiver and Squeeze -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian

Re: Viewing contents of AR archive in KDE

2011-12-06 Thread bd satish
Thanks for the suggestion, I just now installed libarchive-ar-perl, but Ark still cannot recognize AR archive :-( Strangely, it can open .DEB which is also a type of AR archive, but not "pure" AR archives themselves. -- Satish.BD On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 15:59, Iuri Guilherme dos Santos Martins

Re: Viewing contents of AR archive in KDE

2011-12-06 Thread Iuri Guilherme dos Santos Martins
Also check if you have the proper libraries My search returned this package: libarchive-ar-perl Maintained by: Debian Perl Group -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://l

Re: Viewing contents of AR archive in KDE

2011-12-05 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Du, 04 dec 11, 12:36:31, bd satish wrote: > > I know that I can view/extract the archive using CLI ("ar t" and "ar > x") but would like to do it in GUI mode, with Ark. Note that, I'm not > interested in modifying the archive, just "view" it and "extract" it > to a temporary folder. It was worki

Viewing contents of AR archive in KDE

2011-12-04 Thread bd satish
Hi, Like y'all know, AR archive is used for static libraries [ libxyz.a ]. When opening it with Ark (KDE 4.4.5, Squeeze), it pops with with error "Unable to determine archive type". Instead it presents a list of all archive formats which it recognizes, but this list does not include AR archive.