unrar problem with soundfonts

[Peter Billam]

Hi :-) The SoundFonts in
http://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/1200140
might be interesting, but when I download them and try to unpack
on debian squeeze using unrar 0.0.1, it can see the filenames
but I get a long list of "Failed" messages and no files appear.

"aptitude show unrar-free" tells me:
Unrar can extract files from .rar archives. Can't handle some archives
in the RAR 3.0 format, only the non-free "unrar" package can do that.

But "aptitude install unrar-nonfree" can't find any such package
though I've added lots of non-free sites to my /etc/apt/sources.list
I also found:
It used to be named unrar-nonfree, but it is now unrar.
The free version is unrar-free.
but "aptitude install unrar" also can't find any candidate version.
So anyway,

If anybody were by chance to download these soundfonts and unrar
them (on whatever) and repackge them as proper .tar.gz or bzip
files then do let me know ... :-)

Regards, Peter

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[Pete]

In article <slrnk8sc1g...@box8.pjb.com.au>,

Peter Billam <contac...@www.pjb.com.au> wrote:
>Hi :-) The SoundFonts in
> http://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/1200140
>might be interesting, but when I download them and try to unpack
>on debian squeeze using unrar 0.0.1, it can see the filenames
>but I get a long list of "Failed" messages and no files appear.
>
>"aptitude show unrar-free" tells me:
> Unrar can extract files from .rar archives. Can't handle some archives
> in the RAR 3.0 format, only the non-free "unrar" package can do that.
>
>But "aptitude install unrar-nonfree" can't find any such package
>though I've added lots of non-free sites to my /etc/apt/sources.list

There must be some way to break your logjam. I grabbed one of the
files on that site (the "Choir and SFX" one) and had no trouble unpacking
it either under Haiku (unrar 3.7.8 apparently) or Ubuntu 12.0.4 (unrar 4.0.3).
I had to downlad unrar from the [ugh] "Software Center" but it's labelled
as the "non-free" version -- even though it downloads free... (Haven't
actually *tried* the soundfonts yet, but they look OK.)

I know that Debian and Ubuntu are cousins, but I've no idea how 'squeeze'
relates to Ubuntu 12.0.4. unrar "0.0.1" is an awfully early version, though.
A newer version must be available somehow.

>
>If anybody were by chance to download these soundfonts and unrar
>them (on whatever) and repackge them as proper .tar.gz or bzip
>files then do let me know ... :-)

Dunno if I want to put GB of files on my website (don't really have the
space) but if you *really can't find an appropriate unrar, I might put
a few there.

-- Pete --

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[Peter Billam]

On 2012-10-30, Pete <neve...@GoodeveCa.net> wrote:
> There must be some way to break your logjam.

Yes, the logjam is broken :-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unrar
led me to:
http://www.rarlab.com/rar_add.htm
which says:
We do not provide support for non-Windows UnRAR binaries listed above.
and indeed, the binary for Linux didn't work at all. But:
http://www.unrarlib.org/faq.html
contains:
valuable hint by Jordi Burguet Castell: "Incidentally, I could get
the source from ftp://ftp.rarlabs.com/rar/unrarsrc-3.5.4.tar.gz
and easily compiled it with "make -f makefile.unix"
And that still works :-) though it generates some warnings, but:
http://www.rarlab.com/rar/unrarsrc-4.2.4.tar.gz
followed by "make -f makefile.unix" fixes the warnings :-)
Much quicker than messing round with apt/sources.list

> (Haven't actually *tried* the soundfonts yet, but they look OK.)

Likewise. It's a lot of files. I might have to devise a play-a-
few-notes-from-each-patch-from-each-sf2 app to scan through them.

[Gabriel Schumann]

I'm using Debian Wheezy which offers unrar in the non-free branch. It
worked fine for me when trying to unrar the SF2 packets.

Best regards,

Gabriel