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Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Installation
  3. Extracting
    1. Command line
    2. Gnome

Introduction

This page describes how to extract RAR files with free software.

RAR is a proprietary archive format. RAR files can not be created with free software. Unrar-free can extract these files, but only supports RAR files before 3.0.

Installation

Install the unrar-free package: 

 sudo apt-get install unrar-free

Create a link to allow Archive Manager to use unrar-free: 

 sudo ln -s /usr/bin/unrar-free /usr/bin/unrar

Extracting

Command line

 unrar foo.rar

Gnome

Right click on the file in Nautilus and select "Extract Here" or double-click to open with Archive Manager.

Documentation/ExtractingRARFiles (last edited 2009-08-24 11:18:00 by pitof)

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