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linubex 04-29-2005 03:19 AM

RAR and UNRAR HELP
 
Ok, so I'm a newbie but I have read all the other threads, and I seem to have put myself in deeper. I'm happily running Mandrake 10.1 and climbing the learning curve. I have tried unsuccessfully finding an RPM for unrar - there is none (and I've tried through the PLF mentioned in another thread). I read on another thread that I needed to have UNRAR in /usr/bin so I logged in as root and tried to copy and paste the contents of the unpackaged file folder into /usr/bin. That didn't do much. Then I just moved the file unrar-3.4.3-i486-1arf.tgz to the /usr/bin and unpackaged in there. The error I get now is:
/bin/sh: line 1: /usr/bin/unrar: cannot execute binary file

What do I do now to be able to unpackage the RAR files?

felip3 04-29-2005 05:48 AM

I suggest you to install rpm package unrar from plf.

ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/plf.zarb....01plf.i586.rpm

Moloko 04-29-2005 05:51 AM

If you use the source package you'll have to compile it. Unpack in some temporary directory and run "configure", "make" and "make install". Read the text files first which you can find in the unpacked directory.

Tgz source files can never be used directly.

dexter11 04-29-2005 01:27 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Moloko
If you use the source package you'll have to compile it. Unpack in some temporary directory and run "configure", "make" and "make install". Read the text files first which you can find in the unpacked directory.

Tgz source files can never be used directly.

A source file from RAR? I don't think so. RAR is propietary software. That tgz file was maybe for Slackware Linux.

linubex 04-29-2005 02:49 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by felip3
I suggest you to install rpm package unrar from plf.

ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/plf.zarb....01plf.i586.rpm


Thank-you thank-you felip3 - just what I wanted, an RPM! I downloaded,, installed, all great now.


:D


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