Can't open certain cbr files

[stevenpusser]

This is on a Debian Buster base. I'm the packager for MX Linux. Foliate throws up an error message that it can't extract the file, and says that filters are not supported. I have installed rar-nonfree, unrar, python-rarfile, and python3-rarfile in hopes of finding a solution, but nothing so far...

No problem opening cbz files, though.

[johnfactotum]

Foliate bundles libarchive.js and runs it in WebKit; it doesn't use any system libraries for decompression. I think the specific error you're seeing is this libarchive issue: libarchive/libarchive#373

[stevenpusser]

Wow, that's an old bug. Oh well, I prefer using YACreader for those type of files, anyway, though it would have been nice to have one reader to rule them all. I'm trying to get Foliate on the MX Linux iso to replace the clunky fbreader that's there now...maybe with MX 19.3.