Can't open rar files from GUI in Debian stretch

[marcetm]

Hi all,

I've got a issue with the rar files, any time I try to open a rar file I get an error "An error occurred loading the archiver. The command ended with an error" (The actual message is in spanish so what I've written here has been translated). I can extract files from the command line with:

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unrar x filename.rar

So I guess I have to link double click with the right action. Any one knows how?

Thanks

EDIT: dmeg says:

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[143822.501529] rar[32322] vsyscall attempted with vsyscall=none ip:ffffffffff600400 cs:33 sp:7ffc1ab740e8 ax:ffffffffff600400 si:0 di:7ffc1ab74108
[143822.501531] rar[32322]: segfault at ffffffffff600400 ip ffffffffff600400 sp 00007ffc1ab740e8 error 15

[eor2004]

Hi, do you have these packages installed on your system?:

unar
unrar-free
unrar (non-free)
p7zip
p7zip-full
p7zip-rar

If not, install these packages and try extracting the files again, good luck!

[debiman]

instead of double-clicking, please right-click the file and see what the options are (and what the double-click defaults to).

[marcetm]

@eor2004 installed those packages, same behaviour.

@debiman default is file manager.

[Segfault]

Your rar executable is crashing. Try another version.

[marcetm]

Your rar executable is crashing. Try another version.

It seems you're right, I've downloaded and installed the jessie version of the package rar and now I'm able to open rar files from GUI. Is it a bug? Should I report it (I don't know how)?

Thanks for helping

[Segfault]

It is possible the crashing executable was corrupted. I do not think it is a bug, but you may want to check Debian bugs to see if someone has same issue.

[marcetm]

I run

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apt-get clean

to remove downloaded packages. Since I had installed rar from jessie then I run:

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apt-get update && apt-get upgrade

to force download rar package again but it leads to the same issue described before. So the solution for now is to maintain rar in jessie version until there will be a newer one for stretch.

Thanks