RAR extraction

[onetwothreefour]

ARghh!
I need help extracting a .rar file
What seems like a simple problem has been eluding me for days! I've been looking through many faqs and guides but I can't find a solution. I'm extremely new to Linux and not even sure what version of Fedora I'm using. I switched over to linux after XP crashed and burned. The learning curve is a little bigger so please be patient with me.

I've done the "yum install unrar" command in Terminal, and even used the add/remove software interface, but still can't find any such program that can unrar.

I'm probably doing something, or not doing something a seasoned user wouldn't even think about so please go slow.

[scott32746]

Hello,
look here
http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/open-ra...linux-or-unix/

[onetwothreefour]

I've done everything there, no success

[forkbomb]

Various software is not included in official repositories for various reasons, mostly because of the software and patent policy of the Fedora Project. So, it's common to look to third-party repositories without these restrictions to get stuff like mp3 codecs, unrar, etc etc etc.

Anyway, the unrar utility is in RPMFusion.
http://rpmfusion.org/Configuration

Enable the "free" and then the "unfree" repositories and then try "yum install unrar" again.

You may also want to see the "Fedora Set-Up Guides" link in the top right, and then check out AutoTen.

[scott32746]

I do see unrar in repos
From repo : rpmfusion-nonfree-updates

#yum info unrar*

Installed Packages
Name : unrar
Arch : x86_64
Version : 3.8.5
Release : 5.fc12
Size : 190 k
Repo : installed
From repo : rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
Summary : Utility for extracting, testing and viewing RAR archives
URL : http://www.rarlab.com/rar_archiver.htm
License : Freeware with further limitations
Description: The unrar utility is a freeware program for extracting, testing and
: viewing the contents of archives created with the RAR archiver version
: 1.50 and above.

[smr54]

The unrar pacakge is available from rpmfusion-nonfree repos. If you install them (info at rpmfusion.org), and then do yum install unrar you should have it.

Once you do, then it's

unrar e <directory of rars>. For example, if the directory has a bunch of rar files 001.rar 002.rar and so on and is called rardirectory

unrar e rardirectory/001.rar

This will unrar all the rar files in order to give you the complete file. Otherw rar archives will have a rar file just called whatever.rar (as opposed to having a number).

On CentOS, you must type it as shown above, unrar e (in other words, no dash before the e). I believe in Fedora you can either do unrar e or unrar -e.

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Heh looks like we all began posting at the same time.

[onetwothreefour]

Enabling the unfree repository seems to have been my problem.

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Thanks Everyone

[DBelton]

according to the output of the 'yum info unrar' above, you have unrar installed. If you want to see more information on how to use it, go to a terminal command line, and enter 'man unrar' it will tell you lots of info. (or you get even more by running unrar without any parameters.)

[Lopov]

Doesn't "Archive Manager" work on rar files?

[Dan]

Not in this F11 install.