Un RaRaring a Rar file in Linux

Asificare · 07-02-2004, 12:02 AM

Hi

I have been sent some rar files with music in them, what would I use to unpack them, I have version mdk10? Is there a linux version of winrar?

Cheers
Asif

acid_kewpie · 07-02-2004, 02:08 AM

http://www.google.com/search?q=linux+rar

litrelord · 07-02-2004, 07:06 AM

the unrar utility that you can download from the winrar site will work although it's command line only. Personally I prefer it as command line but if you want a GUI you can install file roller and, so long as rar/unrar are installed, use this.

Nick

aaa · 07-02-2004, 07:13 AM

The KDE Ark uses the WinRAR rar utility. Install it, and Ark can access rar files via gui.

motub · 07-02-2004, 08:14 AM

You could also just install rar and unrar from the Mandrake repositories using RPMDrake (I think they're normally in contrib). That's what I always did, as I had a lot of *.rar files from my Windows days that I still needed to get into.

Once rar and unrar are installed, you can use them from any of the GUI frontends (File Roller, KArk, etc), or from the command line.

Asificare · 07-02-2004, 08:30 PM

Hey thanks for all the tips. I had seen the ARK under the menu but it never was associated with rars so it never opened. Once you all opened my mind to the possibility I opened ARK and did that, it now extracts rar files and remembers

Cheers guys/gals
Asif