Comment 2 for bug 44958

I checked out the situation on my new AMD64 Edgy system.

 unrar-free can't even extract uncompressed files from rar archives created with rar 3.0.

 7z can get the uncompressed files (method m0g), but can't extract the compressed files (e.g. method m3g). So it does look like 7z is better.

 unrar (non-free) is available (now, if it wasn't before) in multiverse, and works even on compressed rar 3.0 files (e.g. v2.9, compression method m3g).

peter@tesla:~$ file /usr/bin/unrar
/usr/bin/unrar: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, AMD x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.6.0, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.0, stripped

 unrar is non-free, but open source, so it should be available on any arch. Still, using 7z for Free rar support would be an improvement.