Comment 28 for bug 599169

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Juanjo MarĂ­n (juanj-marin-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

#27

Variate, Evince can open cbr files but it needs the unrar or unrar-free package for opening cbr files

unrar is a no-charge proprietary (freeware) program by RARLABS
unrar-free is free (as freedom) software by the Gna! project for decompressing rar files, however, it doesn't manage the lastest versions of the rar format, so it can't open all the rar files.

Your practice of re-compressing cbr into cbz files is not so bad, because cbz is a much more open format than cbr.