unrar problem (need to uninstall / reinstall)
 

Hi Chaps,

I have managed to make a bit of a mess of my unrar utility.

I discovered that it was not installed so I downloaded a version (v2.71) from tucows and installed it from source.

"unrar e somefile.rar" gave me "corrupted header" errors on a known working archive so I thought I had better uninstall that version and find another.

"make unistall" gave me a "no target to make - stop" error so I guess that there was no option to unistall. Instead I did a "locate unrar" and a "whereis unrar" (after updatedb) which seemed to show no trace or unrar anywhere except in the directory I untarred the source and in /usr/local/bin. So I simply deleted all the executable and the untar direcory.

Next I installed another version of unrar - thi time using apt-get (should have done that first!) this time version 3.4.3-1.1.fc3.fr.

Now when I try "unrar e somefile.rar" I get and when I do a "whereis" I get this So it seems that my FC3 system is still expecting to find unrar in /usr/local/bin while the real version is actually in /usr/bin

How do I tell Fedora where it should be looking?

How should I have uninstalled that rogue software (without being able to do "make uninstall") so that this won't happen again?

Thanks guys...

Mark

Your PATH environment variable is not set properly. Your system should also look inside /usr/bin directory.

Add this line to your /etc/profile or your .bashrc file
You should always use package management to install software. Installing software from sources sometimes may not give the option of uninstallation

-Prasanta

Thanks Prasanta,

Actually all I did was to run "updatedb" again and it seemed to sort the problem out. I was just coming back here to say that when I found that you had posted your reply.

Thanks again...

Mark

I've heard that rar was not free , can somebody confim ?
Can't we extract a rar document with ark ?

The rar utility is not free. It is a shareware.

-Prasanta