Free rar software for linux

Navyn OS is a GNU/Linux distribution based on Gentoo. Navyn OS is a live CD which can be booted from a CD-ROM, but it can also be installed on hard disk.
Most applications included with Navyn OS have very low resource requirements.
Enhancements:
- new kernel 2.6.9; SATA disks are now supported; fixed installation problems; all programs are updated; now you can choose framebuffer resolution during boot; added new programs: LFTP (ftp client), xfsprogs (for XFS partitioning), rar; new security programs gkrellmwireless, macchanger, hydra, stunnel, fping, nast; added script for automounting partitions; added support for mouse with scroll wheel.

Audio Overload is a player for various types of music files which you may
find on the Internet.
Whats it play:
21 console and home computer file formats are now supported.
.AY - Amstrad CPC/Spectrum ZX/Atari ST
.COP - Sam Coupe
.GBS - Nintendo Gameboy
.GSF - Nintendo Gameboy Advance
.GYM - Sega Megadrive/Genesis
.HES - PC Engine
.KSS - MSX
.MDX - Sharp X68000
.MOD - Commodore Amiga
.NSF - Nintendo NES
.ORC - TRS-80 Orchestra-90
.PSF - Sony PlayStation
.QSF - Capcom QSound
.RAW - PC-compatibles with an AdLib
.S3M - PC-compatibles with a GUS or SoundBlaster
.S98 - NEC PC-98
.SAP - Atari XL/XE
.SNDH - Atari ST
.SPC - Super Nintendo
.VGM - Sega Master System/Game Gear
.YM - Amstrad CPC/Spectrum ZX/Atari ST
Enhancements:
- Completely replaced the .NSF, .GBS, and .SNDH engines with substantially better-sounding and more-compatible versions. Big thanks to Shay Green
- (.NSF and .GBS, based on Game Music Box) and Benjamin Gerard (.SNDH based on the upcoming SC68 v2.3.0) for allowing us to use their code!
- CAB archive support. This is popular in Japan and many Japanese formats are commonly found in these containers.
- Fixed MOD note delay and note cut behavior.
- Added support for the S3M note cut effect.
- Fixed bug in the new RAR engine that caused crashes on some files.
- Fixed .RAW files that use a timer divider of 0.
- Fixed tempo of .QSF files.
- Fixed .S98 files using a tempo value other than 0.
- Fixed nasty pop/click at the start of .S98 files.

atool is a script for managing file archives of various types (tar, tar+gzip, zip etc). The main command is probably aunpack, extracting files from an archive.

atool project overcomes the dreaded "multiple files in archive root" problem by first extracting to a unique subdirectory, and then moving back the files if possible. aunpack also prevents local files from being overwritten by mistake.

Other commands provided are apack (create archives), als (list files in archives), and acat (extract files to standard out).

atool identifies archives by their file extension. Sometimes this is not possible, for instance rar archives usually have varying numeric file extensions. In those cases when atool cant identify the format, file(1) is used instead. (atool can also be configured not to use file.)

atool is written in Perl by Oskar Liljeblad (oskar@osk.mine.nu), and is free software (GNU General Public License).

ShowImg is a feature-rich image viewer which can display numerous formats, including JPEG, PNG, GIF (animated), MNG, PSD, ... ShowImg application consists of a tree view frame, a directory and preview frame, and a view frame.
The (larger) view frame can be exchanged with the (smaller) directory/preview frame. It can preview and display images from multiple directories and search for identical images.
ShowImg also features a full-screen mode, zooming, sorting, dragndrop with Konqueror, support for images in compressed archives (tar, tar.gz, zip, ...) and kipi plugins.
Main features:
Viewer
- display JPEG, PNG (alpha layer supported), GIF, XCF, PSD, etc. files;
- open several directories, and archives (.tar.gz, .tar.bz2, .zip, ...);
- apply filters to displayed image;
- preview, fullscreen, slideshow, ``fit-to-screen, efficient zoom;
- open files with external programs;
- support EXIF header (JPEG file metadata);
- display a hexadecimal view.
Management
- batch rename;
- search for exact and similar images;
- several formats conversion;
- manage photo albums.
Configuration
- kipi plugins supported (see kipi plugin homepage);
- configurable interface.
Enhancements:
- Database added to manage images using KexiDB (http://kexi-project.org/),
- Video support added,
- SVG support added,
- RAR archive file support added.

lesspipe.sh is an input filter for the pager less as described in lesss man page. The script runs under a ksh-compatible shell (ksh, bash, zsh) and allows you to use less to view files with binary content, compressed files, archives, and files contained in archives.
Viewing files by accessing a device file is implemented to some extent (DOS filesystems and tar files). It supports many formats (both as plain and compressed files using compress, gzip, bzip2, or zip). Syntax highlighting for many languages is available through a helper script, "code2color".
Enhancements:
- lesspipe now includes support for viewing the contents of rar and 7-zip archives and to display an ASCII representation of the contents of Openoffice documents.
- For images (PNG, GIF, JPEG, and other formats), the files format and characteristics are shown.
- Debian packages can now be viewed without installing dpkg.
- Various small bugfixes and optimizations were done.
- The documentation and the test suite have been enhanced.

Ubuntu Common Hooker project aims to provide an interface for unknown file extensions to automatically install a certain packages when its called.

Use cases

Eduard is a schizophrenic, however his only obession and a way to calm him down is listening to "Veronika Plays Piano, volume 1" which is encoded in MP3. Veronika is his friend who recently got a copy of Ubuntu Linux, and tried it on Eduards computer. However, Eduard just find out that he cant play his MP3s.

Dr. Igor use ".rar" extension to compress his research, however, Villete decides to migrate to Ubuntu Linux. But when Dr. Igor tryies to open "Vitriol.rar, and Zedka.rar", it says "Error cannot open file!"

Okonkwo tried Ubuntu Linux for the first time, however, when he tried to open "Wresting with Amalinze.mpg", he is prompted that "there are no codecs to view this file", However, Okonkwos father Onuka had no problems opening .mpg files, but Okonkwo doesnt like to use Windows like his father did.

Simplebackup is a cross-platform backup program. Simplebackup project reads a configuration file, then it builds a compressed file for each of your backup directories or files on your backup list, and places the compressed files into another location.
For example, this location can be a network mapped drive in Windows, an NFS mounted drive in Unix, another hard disk, an FTP server, or a tape device (Unix only). This will duplicate your information, doing the so called "backup".
Main features:
- Support for several compressed formats (rar, zip, tar, tar.Z, tar.gz, tar.bz2).
- Support for three backup modes: Full ; Incremental and Differential.
- Creates separate backup file for each backup directory or file on the backup list.
- Can read the backup list from a separated text file.
- Support for lists of files to ignore, this will allow ignoring files of any type desired. For example backup all except mp3 and ogg files.
- Support for lists of files to ignore, this will allow ignoring files of any name desired. For example backup all except the files with the name my_boss.png, secret document.doc.
- Support for size limitation on the files to backup, example only backup files up to 1 Megabyte.
- Support for single directory orders by using a special file named [ simplebackup_rejection.txt ] that is placed inside any directory of the backup.
- Allows for the selection of the compression ratio, example, you can use this feature to disable the compression during the backup of a directory that contains mp3 files, since this barely compress at all.
- Can also backup into ftp servers, and is able to use a ftp proxy server (must be in open mode). This gives you the possibility to do backups into any point on the planet across the internet, all that is required is for the remote system to have a standard ftp server.
- Under unix operating systems it can backup into tape devices.
- Also related to tape devices, it can execute any command desired before and after writing to tape, example mt -t /dev/tape0 rewind.
- Works fully unattended, so you can easily program a at/cron job (unix) or task scheduler (windows).
- Automatic backup session management.
- Can manage backup sessions using a local database file.
- Can run a script/batch file/command before the backup, example, you can use this feature to shut-down the database and free the data files for backup.
- Can run a script/batch file/command after the backup, again a example, you can use this feature to bring the database back on-line.
- Can send backup reports by e-mail (using smtp mail servers only).
- Can export the backup reports into any external program(s) or command(s).
- Logs all operations into a file that can be consulted latter.