Rarfile error: RarCannotExec: Cannot find working tool

Using Streamlit
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error RarCannotExec: Cannot find working tool
try run app on Community Cloud (https://cbr-f123.streamlit.app/cbr_f123)
can’t extract files from RAR arhive.
please help.
is there any solution?
same code (rarfile) works perfect on google colab

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Hi @kapam

There are code snippets that you can look into from rarfile API Docs:

https://rarfile.readthedocs.io/api.html

This is the first snippet:

import rarfile

rf = rarfile.RarFile("myarchive.rar")
for f in rf.infolist():
    print(f.filename, f.file_size)
    if f.filename == "README":
        print(rf.read(f))

Hope this helps!

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problem is not in Rarfile - it works well.
The problem is that Comminity Cloud doesn’t support Unrar (which uses Rarfile).
And to support it, Unrar should be installed not via pip (i.e. specified in requirements) but via apt install rar.
Any ideas how can i do it?

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find solution in manuals))

Put the binary dependencies in packages.txt

created file ‘packages.txt’ and wrote this row into:
unrar-free

rebooted app and it worked!)

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Glad you’ve found the solution, Yes exactly, installing Ubuntu packages can be specified in packages.txt.