UnRarX 2.2



Concert Strings 2 - Mac (Using UnRarX) Download all.rar files from your download list. Make sure you have also downloaded and unzipped the file 'UnRarX2.2.zip' from your download list. After you have unzipped it, place the UnRarX application into your Applications folder. Now, navigate back to. Universal Binary version of UnRarX is now available Version 2.2 includes current universal binary versions of unrar and par2 command line applications UnRarX now includes automatic update functionality thanks to Sparkle Framework by Andy Matuschak Changes. Universal Binary version of UnRarX is now available Version 2.2 includes current. UnRarX is a lightweight and user-friendly macOS application that you can use to extract RAR archives to a location of your choice. Handy and very easy-to-use RAR unarchiver unRarX features a simple and clean interface with a minimalistic interface that makes it easy for you to decompress multiple RAR. Universal Binary version of UnRarX is now available. Version 2.2 includes current universal binary versions of unrar and par2 command line applications. UnRarX now includes automatic update.

Unrarx 2.2 For Mac Os X

While OS X features built in support for zip files, the same cannot be said of the RAR format. Compressed RAR files have become more popular in recent years and are often used to supply large software via the internet. UnRarX is a simple utility that add RAR extraction and repair options to OS X.

A RAR file can be simply dragged onto the program interface and it will be automatically extracted to your chosen folder. You can opt to use the source folder as the destination for extracted files, the desktop or any other folder of your choosing.

The integration of PAR2 means that archives can be created, tested and repaired, but for many people the extraction option is all that is needed.

UnRarX offers quick operation and the clean interface means that there is no room for confusion. The tool is basic, but it has been designed with a purpose in mind and it achieves it well.

Verdict:

A fast and reliable way to work with RAR archives on your Mac

AutoPkg and Munki are a great combination to keep client machines updated with the latest versions of software. UnRarX (at least as of this writing) has kind of a funky situation with AutoPkg, though. The AutoPkg download recipe is currently downloading the beta of 2.2 instead of the final release of 2.2.

What makes this complicated are a few things:

  • When you launch up UnRarX 2.2B, the app itself checks for an update and then prompts you to upgrade to UnRarX 2.2.
  • The binary for 2.2B and 2.2 is exactly the same (if you do an MD5 check on /Applications/UnRarX.app/Contents/MacOS/UnRarX for both version, they turn up the same hash).
  • If you do a
    makepkginfo -f /Applications/UnRarX.app/Contents/Info.plist
    an installs array with the CFBundleVersion will come up instead of an MD5 checksum on the file itself.
  • As far as Munki's concerned, 2.2B is a higher version number than 2., which makes sense.

It's a bit of a mess, because 2.2B appears to be higher than 2.2, but it's essentially the same binary as 2.2... and it prompts you to upgrade to 2.2 when you launch it.

UnRarX 2.2

So how do you get your 2.2B clients 'upgraded' to 2.2? I had to do a few things.

First of all, I got the output of

makepkginfo -f /Applications/UnRarX.app/Contents/MacOS/UnRarX
just to get the basic format for the installs array.

Then I ran

on each version to get the unique checksum, and I modified the installs array to point to that file and to use that hash instead of the one for the executable.

Unrarx 2.2

Finally, I changed the version number in Munki of the 2.2B to 1.0 (or some other arbitrarily lower number than 2.2).

Once I did that, my clients says 2.2 as an upgrade to the existing 2.2B and then upgraded. I've also had to temporarily turn off the AutoPkg recipe for UnRarX, because the Sparkle feed is still showing 2.2B.

Unrarx 2019

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