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Old 6th March 2011
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The license for unrar prevents binary package distribution, you'll have to build the port manually.. this does NOT mean fetching the source distfile and manually building it in your home directory.

http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq15.html#Ports

An alternative program, p7zip, supports a wide variety of formats.. however some newer RAR archives are incompatible.

There is no native Adobe Flash player for OpenBSD, if you wait for 4.9, some browsers now partially support playing YouTube videos using the HTML5 support.. but it's always hit and miss in what codecs work, the midori browser in the tree supports HTML5/h264 I believe.. WebM probably doesn't work in 4.8.

It might be a good idea to just use one of the many methods of downloading if such distractions are important to you.. however now would be a good time to ween yourself off of them, they're pointless.

As for ATI graphics, OpenBSD's ATI driver is still slightly old.. due to some developers depending on a feature that was deprecated/broken upstream.

For the HD 4350, there may have been patches added to 4.9 so that XVideo/2D acceleration will work.. pretty much all the driver will be capable of is modesetting and slightly more tolerable performance than the VESA VBE driver.

Good luck.. read the FAQ, etc.
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