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calibre package

Calibre can not unrar files

Bug #390263 reported by Ilmari Vacklin
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calibre (Debian)
Fix Released
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calibre (Ubuntu)
Won't Fix
Undecided
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unrar-nonfree (Debian)
Fix Released
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unrar-nonfree (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: calibre

Calibre is looking for libunrar.so, which is not available on Jaunty as far as I can see (with apt-file).

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Fabrice Coutadeur (fabricesp) wrote :

same here

Changed in calibre (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Nick Andrik (andrikos) wrote :

This is a bug in the unrar (non free) package not including the library, not calibre

You can use my PPA here:
https://launchpad.net/~andrikos/+archive/ppa?field.series_filter=quantal
and install the upgraded unrar which should fix the problem

I also includes an updated calibre version, but it is not necessary for fixing this bug

Changed in calibre (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Invalid
status: Invalid → Confirmed
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Nick Andrik (andrikos) wrote :

Actually, maybe the only "bug" in calibre is that the official package does not Suggest: unrar-nonfree

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Changed in unrar-nonfree (Debian):
status: Unknown → Confirmed
Nick Andrik (andrikos)
Changed in unrar-nonfree (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Changed in unrar-nonfree (Debian):
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package unrar-nonfree - 1:4.2.4-0.3

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unrar-nonfree (1:4.2.4-0.3) unstable; urgency=low

  * Non-maintainer upload
  * Another fix for symbols file to prevent FTBFS in many architectures

 -- Nick Andrik <email address hidden> Tue, 19 Feb 2013 22:31:18 +0100

Changed in unrar-nonfree (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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Changed in calibre (Debian):
status: Unknown → Fix Released
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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

Recent saucy packages now completely dropped the unrar plugin, as it is non-free software.

Changed in calibre (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Won't Fix
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Changed in calibre (Debian):
status: Fix Released → New
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Brice Terzaghi (terzag) wrote :

Same problem on Ubuntu 17.10 (and already 17.04). Since the original bug report, unrar (free) has been renamed as unrar-free and unrar-nonfree is now unrar. None include libunrar.so. The lib isn't packaged independantly either.

As the unrar-nonfree is tagged as "fix released", I assume it's a regression?

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Changed in calibre (Debian):
status: New → Fix Released
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