PHP Extension "rar" could not be installed via PECL despite it is available...

[cristo357]

Steps to reproduce

1. docker-compose.yml config:

services:
  ## NEXTCLOUD
  nextcloud:
    image: nextcloud/all-in-one:latest
    init: true
    restart: unless-stopped
    container_name: nextcloud-aio-mastercontainer # This line cannot be changed.
    volumes:
      - nextcloud_aio_mastercontainer:/mnt/docker-aio-config
      - /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock:ro
    ports:
      - "8080:8080"
    environment:
      - NEXTCLOUD_DATADIR=${DATADIR}
      - NEXTCLOUD_MEMORY_LIMIT=4096M
      - NEXTCLOUD_MAX_TIME=4000
      - AIO_DISABLE_BACKUP_SECTION=true
      - APACHE_PORT=11000
      - APACHE_IP_BINDING=0.0.0.0
      - TALK_PORT=3478
      - SKIP_DOMAIN_VALIDATION=false
      - NEXTCLOUD_ENABLE_NVIDIA_GPU=true
      - NEXTCLOUD_ADDITIONAL_APKS=poppler-utils imagemagick
      - NEXTCLOUD_ADDITIONAL_PHP_EXTENSIONS=imagick rar
      - AIO_COMMUNITY_CONTAINERS=memories
    networks:
      - nextcloud-aio
volumes:
  nextcloud_aio_mastercontainer:
    name: nextcloud_aio_mastercontainer # This line cannot be changed.
networks:
  nextcloud-aio:
    external: true # Use the existing Nextcloud network

2. Start containers. Given error in "nextcloud-aio-nextcloud" container:

2025-07-09T02:45:18.372253983Z Installing PHP extension rar ...
2025-07-09T02:45:19.472087995Z error: /usr/src/php/ext/rar does not exist
2025-07-09T02:45:19.472108014Z 
2025-07-09T02:45:19.472114336Z usage: /usr/local/bin/docker-php-ext-install [-jN] [--ini-name file.ini] ext-name [ext-name ...]
2025-07-09T02:45:19.472119596Z    ie: /usr/local/bin/docker-php-ext-install gd mysqli
2025-07-09T02:45:19.472124546Z        /usr/local/bin/docker-php-ext-install pdo pdo_mysql
2025-07-09T02:45:19.472129455Z        /usr/local/bin/docker-php-ext-install -j5 gd mbstring mysqli pdo pdo_mysql shmop
2025-07-09T02:45:19.472134375Z 
2025-07-09T02:45:19.472139645Z if custom ./configure arguments are necessary, see docker-php-ext-configure
2025-07-09T02:45:19.472144755Z 
2025-07-09T02:45:19.472149614Z Possible values for ext-name:
2025-07-09T02:45:19.538091443Z bcmath bz2 calendar ctype curl dba dl_test dom enchant exif ffi fileinfo filter ftp gd gettext gmp hash iconv imap intl json ldap mbstring mysqli oci8 odbc opcache pcntl pdo pdo_dblib pdo_firebird pdo_mysql pdo_oci pdo_odbc pdo_pgsql pdo_sqlite pgsql phar posix pspell random readline reflection session shmop simplexml snmp soap sockets sodium spl standard sysvmsg sysvsem sysvshm tidy tokenizer xml xmlreader xmlwriter xsl zend_test zip
2025-07-09T02:45:19.538258587Z 
2025-07-09T02:45:19.538272083Z Some of the above modules are already compiled into PHP; please check
2025-07-09T02:45:19.538278526Z the output of "php -i" to see which modules are already loaded.
2025-07-09T02:45:19.538410432Z Could not install rar from core. Trying to install from PECL...
2025-07-09T02:45:58.645142050Z error: 'rar' does not exist
2025-07-09T02:45:58.645180444Z 
2025-07-09T02:45:58.645193660Z usage: /usr/local/bin/docker-php-ext-enable [options] module-name [module-name ...]
2025-07-09T02:45:58.645199251Z    ie: /usr/local/bin/docker-php-ext-enable gd mysqli
2025-07-09T02:45:58.645204461Z        /usr/local/bin/docker-php-ext-enable pdo pdo_mysql
2025-07-09T02:45:58.645209130Z        /usr/local/bin/docker-php-ext-enable --ini-name 0-apc.ini apcu apc
2025-07-09T02:45:58.645213839Z 
2025-07-09T02:45:58.645218629Z Possible values for module-name:
2025-07-09T02:45:58.668450698Z apcu.so bcmath.so bz2.so exif.so ftp.so gd.so gmp.so igbinary.so imagick.so imap.so intl.so ldap.so memcached.so opcache.so pcntl.so pdo_pgsql.so pgsql.so redis.so smbclient.so sodium.so sysvsem.so zip.so
2025-07-09T02:45:58.668653531Z 
2025-07-09T02:45:58.668663851Z Some of the above modules are already compiled into PHP; please check
2025-07-09T02:45:58.668668690Z the output of "php -i" to see which modules are already loaded.
2025-07-09T02:45:58.668805265Z Could also not install rar from PECL. The PHP extensions was not installed!

3. The extension is indeed available: https://pecl.php.net/package/rar

Expected behavior

Extension being installed.

Actual behavior

Extension not installed despite it is available in PECL directory.

Other information

Host OS

Operating System: Linux 6.8.0-63-generic x86_64
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5700G with Radeon Graphics (16 threads)
Memory: 31.18 GB
Nextcloud AIO v11.2.1
Nextcloud Hub 31.0.6

Output of sudo docker info

Client: Docker Engine - Community
Version: 28.3.1
Context: default
Debug Mode: false
Plugins:
buildx: Docker Buildx (Docker Inc.)
Version: v0.25.0
Path: /usr/libexec/docker/cli-plugins/docker-buildx
compose: Docker Compose (Docker Inc.)
Version: v2.38.1
Path: /usr/libexec/docker/cli-plugins/docker-compose

Server:
Containers: 35
Running: 32
Paused: 0
Stopped: 3
Images: 52
Server Version: 28.3.1
Storage Driver: btrfs
Btrfs:
Logging Driver: json-file
Cgroup Driver: systemd
Cgroup Version: 2
Plugins:
Volume: local
Network: bridge host ipvlan macvlan null overlay
Log: awslogs fluentd gcplogs gelf journald json-file local splunk syslog
CDI spec directories:
/etc/cdi
/var/run/cdi
Swarm: inactive
Runtimes: io.containerd.runc.v2 nvidia runc
Default Runtime: runc
Init Binary: docker-init
containerd version: 05044ec0a9a75232cad458027ca83437aae3f4da
runc version: v1.2.5-0-g59923ef
init version: de40ad0
Security Options:
apparmor
seccomp
Profile: builtin
cgroupns
Kernel Version: 6.8.0-63-generic
Operating System: Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS
OSType: linux
Architecture: x86_64
CPUs: 16
Total Memory: 31.18GiB
Name: server
ID: e750b952-09a3-4d83-9eb3-a0fd0a6df6ec
Docker Root Dir: /mnt/data/docker
Debug Mode: false
Experimental: false
Insecure Registries:
::1/128
127.0.0.0/8
Live Restore Enabled: false

Docker run command or docker-compose file that you used

services:
  ## NEXTCLOUD
  nextcloud:
    image: nextcloud/all-in-one:latest
    init: true
    restart: unless-stopped
    container_name: nextcloud-aio-mastercontainer # This line cannot be changed.
    volumes:
      - nextcloud_aio_mastercontainer:/mnt/docker-aio-config
      - /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock:ro
    ports:
      - "8080:8080"
    environment:
      - NEXTCLOUD_DATADIR=${DATADIR}
      - NEXTCLOUD_MEMORY_LIMIT=4096M
      - NEXTCLOUD_MAX_TIME=4000
      - AIO_DISABLE_BACKUP_SECTION=true
      - APACHE_PORT=11000
      - APACHE_IP_BINDING=0.0.0.0
      - TALK_PORT=3478
      - SKIP_DOMAIN_VALIDATION=false
      - NEXTCLOUD_ENABLE_NVIDIA_GPU=true
      - NEXTCLOUD_ADDITIONAL_APKS=poppler-utils imagemagick
      - NEXTCLOUD_ADDITIONAL_PHP_EXTENSIONS=imagick rar
      - AIO_COMMUNITY_CONTAINERS=memories
    networks:
      - nextcloud-aio
volumes:
  nextcloud_aio_mastercontainer:
    name: nextcloud_aio_mastercontainer # This line cannot be changed.
networks:
  nextcloud-aio:
    external: true # Use the existing Nextcloud network

Other valuable info

Tried to use Archive Manager and got this error.

[Zoey2936]

can you please try to run pecl install rar in the nextcloud-aio-nextcloud container and send the output?

[szaimen]

Hey, I just tried to test-install the rar extension and it looks like it is not compatible with php8.3:

  787 |                         zend_string *arc_str = zend_resolve_path(tmp_archive, tmp_arch_len);
      |                                                                  ^~~~~~~~~~~
      |                                                                  |
      |                                                                  char *
/tmp/pear/temp/rar/rar_stream.c:787:66: note: expected 'zend_string *' {aka 'struct _zend_string *'} but argument is of type 'char *'
/tmp/pear/temp/rar/rar_stream.c:787:48: error: too many arguments to function 'zend_resolve_path'
  787 |                         zend_string *arc_str = zend_resolve_path(tmp_archive, tmp_arch_len);
      |                                                ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
make: *** [Makefile:227: rar_stream.lo] Error 1
ERROR: `make' failed

Feel free to report this to https://github.com/cataphract/php-rar/issues

[ER-EPR]

Any update?