How to unzip rar files?

**asmith2306** · August 16th, 2012

Hi,

I tried downloading Rar from http://www.rarlab.com/download.htm but how do you use it? I did a make, make install and nothing happened. I installed Ark as well from the package manager but that seems to hang when I try to extract a .rar file.

Thanks

**ubudog** · August 16th, 2012

Have you tried unrar?

Code:

sudo apt-get install unrar

Then:

Code:

unrar x filename.rar

Hope that helps,
ubudog

**asmith2306** · August 20th, 2012

Originally Posted by ubudog

Have you tried unrar?

Code:

sudo apt-get install unrar

Then:

Code:

unrar x filename.rar

Hope that helps,
ubudog

Hi, I got unrar to work but I had to use the full path to execute ie. usr/bin/unrar the install from apt-get didn't seem to add it to the path. I think I may have tried to untar it from source so there is something still lying around that is interfering with a fresh install.