Comments on: Open RAR File / Extract RAR Files Under Linux or UNIX

By: Colin Shird

Colin Shird — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 09:05:09 +0000

After I initially commented I clicked the -Notify me when new feedback are added- checkbox and now every time a comment is added I get four emails with the identical comment. Is there any method you may take away me from that service? Thanks!

By: chathu

chathu — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 06:41:51 +0000

download a program called unrar… open terminal and type sudo apt-get install unrar…
it really works…….

By: bigpush

bigpush — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 14:49:43 +0000

Thank you ! !

By: jose

jose — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 05:28:37 +0000

thank u very much it helps a lot

By: ashish

ashish — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 09:52:16 +0000

thanks this was helpful
first i runned
If any of above, methods is not working for you, download binary package from official rarlab site:
$ cd /tmp
$ wget http://www.rarlab.com/rar/rarlinux-3.6.0.tar.gz

Untar file
$ tar -zxvf rarlinux-3.6.0.tar.gz

Both unrar and rar commands are located in rar sub-directory. Just go to rar directory:
$ cd rar
$ ./unrar

Now copy rar and unrar to /bin directory:
# cp rar unrar /bin

then i changed my default directory to desptop where the file.rar file was and tried to unrar but it did not go right.
then after reading it above
i took the file.rar file by copying it to root->temp then shifted the path using cd(change directory command)to tmp (root) and then runned the unrar command it was a success

By: Harold

Harold — Mon, 30 May 2011 13:04:33 +0000

hey
i hv linux debian
i hv used another method to install the rar and unrar file i downloaded the file extracted rar and unrar after extracting them i jumped to root terminal the typed
“cp” dragged the file rar into the root terminal window and then typed “/bin” lastly pressed enter the file was copied to the bin folder(i saw it) i did the same thing with the unrar file and it successfully copied after all this
i tried extracting the rar file by typing “unrar e” and dragging the file to be extracted into the root terminal window (aftr unrar e the full address of the file appeared) then i pressed enter and then i saw /bin/unrar:cannot execute binary file
i m very upset about this prob. pls hlp me!

By: maadri

maadri — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 04:25:14 +0000

thanks a lot

By: Arun

Arun — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 17:11:06 +0000

Thanks, this helped a lot….

By: kyoTunderke

kyoTunderke — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 15:50:34 +0000

Thanx, you solved my two-months-problem <3

By: Angel

Angel — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 16:34:43 +0000

As always, thanks to you Vivek and cyberciti!

By: Shayari

Shayari — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 05:53:39 +0000

I was always facing problem to open a .rar file . It was showing error . Now after this my problem has been solved .Thank’s for this tip

By: bruce

bruce — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 21:00:04 +0000

very good

By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 17:56:18 +0000

You rock! Thanks a ton for the site. I haven’t used Unix in 20 years and this had me unraring in 1 minute!

By: aman

aman — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 14:40:35 +0000

heloooooo sir i cant understand plz help me how i can extract .rar file in server ??

By: al

al — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 11:40:17 +0000

hi,
my usb was infected by a virus and all my data are in that.
i try to open it using a win.rar folder and it works for some (not all) of the documents (word) i had in usb.
but now i want to save them in another file on my pc.
how can i save files form win.rar to a new folder on my pc?
thank u

By: Rob

Rob — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 05:53:13 +0000

To unpack a single file in a multipart archive:
$ unrar e -kb filename.rar

By: praveen

praveen — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:14:32 +0000

Now im able to open.
Thanks alot :)

By: mopheat

mopheat — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 01:33:24 +0000

graet… my rar file now can be open
thanks

By: Juergen

Juergen — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 11:16:22 +0000

This was very usefull for me
much thanks

By: Uwan

Uwan — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 06:01:15 +0000

Thank u very much brother.
I get new idea as linux user.
Thank u again lot.