Been Downloading a few things off rapid-share alot of it comes in the form of .rar files. Most of them I extract with ark if they are password protected ark just asks for it and it extracts too easy.
Until I come across some files that just hang and ark wont bring up the password window so nothing happens, at this point Id downloaded a couple of gig of these files. I couldn't work out how to get any help from ark as to why it wouldn't work but as I only want to extract the file open konsole cd to the directory and run the
unrar e whateverfileiscalled.rar enter password at the prompt file extracted the e means in current directory.
obversely unrar package needs to be installed but you'd do that at install wouldn't you

I read this a few times and still can't figure out if there is a question here.

Does running unrar from the terminal work or not? If not, what error is it giving you?

Sorry its not a question I just wanted to highlight the fact that when ark wont extract a .rar file theres still a way, I've previously downloaded other versions of things I couldn't extract.

Unrar will need to be installed separately (not auto-magically at install), as it cortavienes the gpl Mandriva and GNU/Linux requires.

You can find it in the plf repos.

Cheers, Glenn

I like to use the "unp" application for command-line unpacking. It's a simple wrapper for all the various archiving formats, so that no matter what type you have, a simple "unp archivename" (choose the first file for multi-part archives) will extract it to the current directory. As long as the correct backend is installed, of course.

Unrar is in the official /non-free repo.

Jim

Oops, Thanks Jim