extart >> unrar e file.rar

and rar?
how tu rar folder or any file ?

There's no free software to create rar files in GNU/Linux, however unrar is available as free, open source. If you want to do both then you can use wine and install winrar.

PeaZip gets the job done once you have the necessary dependencies.

http://peazip.sourceforge.net/

Not sure if there's an apt-get command or not..

Except creating rar files.

Ah, forgot about that part.

So what about rar? I mean, there is an application called "rar" that has to be installed separately from unrar.

I'm sorry i'm new in linux but i have the same problem. I have many file in *.rar and some of them is very important to me. For the 1st time i get frustated to know that linux doesn't support rar file. After searching for hours with the help of "Master Google" i found that winrar has been porting to linux (yes it's true!) but of course it's not free . And it's only available on command line that was nightmare for newbie like me (too much parameters to remember). But If you want to unrar (only to extract this file of course)i found 7zip it's call p7zip in linux, it's more "friendly" use eventhough you must use it from terminal.

You can actually use izarc if you have wine installed. Works perfectly, is free but it is also closed source.

I should have only said that there is no free 'open source' rar binary available for creating rar files. You'll find when you use the proprietary rar binary you are referring to that it is an 'evaluation copy' and therefore subject to registration for full use.

It has nothing to do with GNU/Linux not supporting rar. It's just not free and open source. You should instead direct your frustrations at the author of the format.

Rar for Linux is available here:

http://rarlabs.com/download.htm

As the previous poster has stated, it is considered to be a "trial" version, but it is not crippled in any way. There is no gui for it - iow, cli only.

It can, of course, create and extract rars.

To extract an archive:

To create an archive
To password protect an archive and to span volumes (ie, create a multi-part archive of 100Mb each)
Hope this gets you started.

cheers,

I stand corrected on that statement, it implies the app is in some way crippled, which it is not as stated by the previous poster.

Have any one of you tried 7-zip ?
www.7-zip.org/download.html

I've used it in Windows and I'am very pleased of it. Now it is available for Linux too (under the name p7zip). It supports many different formats, including .rar

Vas

thanks all

We could better say that it's rar which doesn't support Linux. Remember: it's closed software what we speak about.

Rar was born as a DOS program, and people used it in command line just like lha, arj, pkzip and many others. No one died because of that, and they were widely used by non-techie users. You just need to remember how to do rar --help or whatever the parameter to show the help, with the time you'll learn the rest.

It's more about laziness that about having a true problem. By the way, mc can navigate into rar files. I don't know about graphical frontends.

Besides that, I don't know why anyone would want to compress their data on a non-free format whose usability will depend on the will of someone. There are lots of free alternatives, use one of those instead. All you need to use the rar's that others will send you is the free unrar tool.