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I have a file with .rar extension, ex: foo.rar



I want to extract content from that file, how do I extract it?










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    Install p7zip and try it: 7z x foo.rar.

    – user140866
    Dec 1 '15 at 6:04






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    @siblynx, the Fedora manual for 7z(1) states that rar support was removed due to non-open license. rar is not open source, and this *** will not*** be shipped by Fedora.

    – vonbrand
    Feb 23 '16 at 12:39






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    That's a fedora problem. Download stock p7zip source code and see unrar support is still there.

    – user140866
    Feb 23 '16 at 16:21

















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I have a file with .rar extension, ex: foo.rar



I want to extract content from that file, how do I extract it?










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    Install p7zip and try it: 7z x foo.rar.

    – user140866
    Dec 1 '15 at 6:04






  • 2





    @siblynx, the Fedora manual for 7z(1) states that rar support was removed due to non-open license. rar is not open source, and this *** will not*** be shipped by Fedora.

    – vonbrand
    Feb 23 '16 at 12:39






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    That's a fedora problem. Download stock p7zip source code and see unrar support is still there.

    – user140866
    Feb 23 '16 at 16:21













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    Install p7zip and try it: 7z x foo.rar.

    – user140866
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    @siblynx, the Fedora manual for 7z(1) states that rar support was removed due to non-open license. rar is not open source, and this *** will not*** be shipped by Fedora.

    – vonbrand
    Feb 23 '16 at 12:39






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    That's a fedora problem. Download stock p7zip source code and see unrar support is still there.

    – user140866
    Feb 23 '16 at 16:21












  • 6





    Install p7zip and try it: 7z x foo.rar.

    – user140866
    Dec 1 '15 at 6:04






  • 2





    @siblynx, the Fedora manual for 7z(1) states that rar support was removed due to non-open license. rar is not open source, and this *** will not*** be shipped by Fedora.

    – vonbrand
    Feb 23 '16 at 12:39






  • 1





    That's a fedora problem. Download stock p7zip source code and see unrar support is still there.

    – user140866
    Feb 23 '16 at 16:21







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Install p7zip and try it: 7z x foo.rar.

– user140866
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Install p7zip and try it: 7z x foo.rar.

– user140866
Dec 1 '15 at 6:04




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@siblynx, the Fedora manual for 7z(1) states that rar support was removed due to non-open license. rar is not open source, and this *** will not*** be shipped by Fedora.

– vonbrand
Feb 23 '16 at 12:39





@siblynx, the Fedora manual for 7z(1) states that rar support was removed due to non-open license. rar is not open source, and this *** will not*** be shipped by Fedora.

– vonbrand
Feb 23 '16 at 12:39




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That's a fedora problem. Download stock p7zip source code and see unrar support is still there.

– user140866
Feb 23 '16 at 16:21





That's a fedora problem. Download stock p7zip source code and see unrar support is still there.

– user140866
Feb 23 '16 at 16:21










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You can install unrar - "Unarchiver for .rar files" or unp - "unpack (almost) everything with one command"



To unrar a file:



  • unrar x <myfile>

To unp a file:



  • unp <myfile.rar>

Since unrar is not open source, some distros might not have it in their package manager already. If it's not, try unrar-free.



Notice that unrar x <myfile> will preserve directory structure in archive, in difference with unrar e <myfile> which will flatten it






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    There is also a rar command. It is binary-only and a bit less easy to use, but can open some files that unrar cannot.

    – Wouter Verhelst
    Dec 1 '15 at 6:47











  • On my Linux Mint 18.2 installation, unrar appears to be already installed and available by default.

    – Christos Hayward
    Sep 18 '17 at 17:15



















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You can use unar. This is not related to the non-free unrar, it's free software.






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  • @vonbrand: availability depends on the specific GNU/Linux distribution. For example unar is available for Parabola GNU/Linux-libre. Anyway I didn't mention "unrar", and unar != unrar

    – Francesco Turco
    Feb 23 '16 at 18:06











  • There is also something called unrar-free.

    – neverMind9
    Oct 30 '18 at 21:00












  • If rar is not open source, so much that 7-Zip on OSS distributions will not ship with it, how did unar manage to include it?

    – palswim
    Jan 31 at 0:57











  • @palswim, rar is simply a proprietary format and the rar tool is an implementation (which has a non-open license). unar is another implementation that is free. Fedora removed the non-free rar tool due to its license, not because of anything regarding the rar format itself

    – Neowizard
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You can get unar from fedora repo, it's open and licence-pure:



dnf install unar
unar file.rar





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  • Not available. unrar is not open source (it is forbidden to analyze the code to reverse engineer a compression program), so Fedora won't ship it.

    – vonbrand
    Feb 23 '16 at 10:24











  • su -c 'dnf install download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/… -E %fedora).noarch.rpm download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/… -E %fedora).noarch.rpm'

    – shcherbak
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  • dnf install unrar

    – shcherbak
    Feb 24 '16 at 11:07











  • also you can use unar for fedora 23. did the author of the question asked about feora or opensource sollution or about unix rar sollution? @vonbrand

    – shcherbak
    Feb 24 '16 at 11:10












  • To install on debian, use: sudo apt-get install unar

    – VectorVortec
    Mar 2 '18 at 18:12



















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sudo apt-get install p7zip
7zr x myfile.rar


On Windows I rely on 7zip for rar and every other archive file, and it works on Linux, too.






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  • I used this approach and It worked. Thanks.

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Note that unrar is not open source (the license to the available source forbids using it to reverse engineer the compression, which violates point 6 "No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor" of the Open Source Definition), and thus will not be shipped by Fedora.



Go to Rar Labs, check out the source for unrar (be careful, the version might have changed!), build and install (you'll need g++ and make), preferably for your account only:



$ tar zxf unrarsrc-5.3.11.tar.gz
$ cd unrar
$ make DESTDIR=$HOME all
$ make DESTDIR=$HOME install-unrar


Add $HOME/bin to your PATH, and you are all set.



Yes, there is a RPM offered. I would't touch it with the proverbial 10 feet pole, more often than not third parties have no clue on how to create a correct RPM (it isn't exactly rocket science, but there are lots of details that have to be just right, see e.g. Fedora's guidelines). Besides, there are differences between Fedora versions, "one size fits all" can't cut it.






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Use RAR rar e <filename> it comes with most distros. Created by brother of Eugene Rosahal who is the developer of RAR files.






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  • rar is not a inbuilt command

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    Sorry, my fault. Anyway unrar neither. In fact, there is no way to extract rar files with a inbuilt command.

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I'd suggest using a nearest available file manager, either Norton-like (Midnight Commander, Double Commander, Tux Commander, etc., whatever is present in your distribution) or window-based (as Dolphin). Most of them have enough intelligence to open all kinds of archives in a manner suitable for manual contents exploring, but, sometimes, they use external tools. For instance, my Kubuntu suggests Ark in such cases. They would need an external tool, as unrar, for accessing proprietary archive formats; if so, install the latter using a package manager.



If you want to extract the entire archive or a single specified file, unrar e extracts without full path, and unrar x also makes intermediate directories.






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  • Since unrar is not open source, Fedora won't ship support for it in any form.

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  • @vonbrand Ubuntu provides both unrar and unrar-free. If Fedora can't include the latter, it's not a license issue.

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  • @vonbrand moreover, there is no word for Fedora from original author. Your approach to limit question to the only non-most-used distribution is destructive.

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Install the unrar package. On Fedora, for eample, you can do so with:



sudo yum install unrar


Then, use it to extract the files:



unrar e filename.rar





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  • This is completely misleading. There is no such package.

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On Ubuntu, you have a GUI solution, Archive Manager. It provides extraction of such archive files as .rar files.






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    You can install unrar - "Unarchiver for .rar files" or unp - "unpack (almost) everything with one command"



    To unrar a file:



    • unrar x <myfile>

    To unp a file:



    • unp <myfile.rar>

    Since unrar is not open source, some distros might not have it in their package manager already. If it's not, try unrar-free.



    Notice that unrar x <myfile> will preserve directory structure in archive, in difference with unrar e <myfile> which will flatten it






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      There is also a rar command. It is binary-only and a bit less easy to use, but can open some files that unrar cannot.

      – Wouter Verhelst
      Dec 1 '15 at 6:47











    • On my Linux Mint 18.2 installation, unrar appears to be already installed and available by default.

      – Christos Hayward
      Sep 18 '17 at 17:15
















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    You can install unrar - "Unarchiver for .rar files" or unp - "unpack (almost) everything with one command"



    To unrar a file:



    • unrar x <myfile>

    To unp a file:



    • unp <myfile.rar>

    Since unrar is not open source, some distros might not have it in their package manager already. If it's not, try unrar-free.



    Notice that unrar x <myfile> will preserve directory structure in archive, in difference with unrar e <myfile> which will flatten it






    share|improve this answer




















    • 2





      There is also a rar command. It is binary-only and a bit less easy to use, but can open some files that unrar cannot.

      – Wouter Verhelst
      Dec 1 '15 at 6:47











    • On my Linux Mint 18.2 installation, unrar appears to be already installed and available by default.

      – Christos Hayward
      Sep 18 '17 at 17:15














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    You can install unrar - "Unarchiver for .rar files" or unp - "unpack (almost) everything with one command"



    To unrar a file:



    • unrar x <myfile>

    To unp a file:



    • unp <myfile.rar>

    Since unrar is not open source, some distros might not have it in their package manager already. If it's not, try unrar-free.



    Notice that unrar x <myfile> will preserve directory structure in archive, in difference with unrar e <myfile> which will flatten it






    share|improve this answer















    You can install unrar - "Unarchiver for .rar files" or unp - "unpack (almost) everything with one command"



    To unrar a file:



    • unrar x <myfile>

    To unp a file:



    • unp <myfile.rar>

    Since unrar is not open source, some distros might not have it in their package manager already. If it's not, try unrar-free.



    Notice that unrar x <myfile> will preserve directory structure in archive, in difference with unrar e <myfile> which will flatten it







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      There is also a rar command. It is binary-only and a bit less easy to use, but can open some files that unrar cannot.

      – Wouter Verhelst
      Dec 1 '15 at 6:47











    • On my Linux Mint 18.2 installation, unrar appears to be already installed and available by default.

      – Christos Hayward
      Sep 18 '17 at 17:15













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      There is also a rar command. It is binary-only and a bit less easy to use, but can open some files that unrar cannot.

      – Wouter Verhelst
      Dec 1 '15 at 6:47











    • On my Linux Mint 18.2 installation, unrar appears to be already installed and available by default.

      – Christos Hayward
      Sep 18 '17 at 17:15








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    There is also a rar command. It is binary-only and a bit less easy to use, but can open some files that unrar cannot.

    – Wouter Verhelst
    Dec 1 '15 at 6:47





    There is also a rar command. It is binary-only and a bit less easy to use, but can open some files that unrar cannot.

    – Wouter Verhelst
    Dec 1 '15 at 6:47













    On my Linux Mint 18.2 installation, unrar appears to be already installed and available by default.

    – Christos Hayward
    Sep 18 '17 at 17:15






    On my Linux Mint 18.2 installation, unrar appears to be already installed and available by default.

    – Christos Hayward
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    You can use unar. This is not related to the non-free unrar, it's free software.






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    • @vonbrand: availability depends on the specific GNU/Linux distribution. For example unar is available for Parabola GNU/Linux-libre. Anyway I didn't mention "unrar", and unar != unrar

      – Francesco Turco
      Feb 23 '16 at 18:06











    • There is also something called unrar-free.

      – neverMind9
      Oct 30 '18 at 21:00












    • If rar is not open source, so much that 7-Zip on OSS distributions will not ship with it, how did unar manage to include it?

      – palswim
      Jan 31 at 0:57











    • @palswim, rar is simply a proprietary format and the rar tool is an implementation (which has a non-open license). unar is another implementation that is free. Fedora removed the non-free rar tool due to its license, not because of anything regarding the rar format itself

      – Neowizard
      Mar 9 at 7:59
















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    You can use unar. This is not related to the non-free unrar, it's free software.






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    • @vonbrand: availability depends on the specific GNU/Linux distribution. For example unar is available for Parabola GNU/Linux-libre. Anyway I didn't mention "unrar", and unar != unrar

      – Francesco Turco
      Feb 23 '16 at 18:06











    • There is also something called unrar-free.

      – neverMind9
      Oct 30 '18 at 21:00












    • If rar is not open source, so much that 7-Zip on OSS distributions will not ship with it, how did unar manage to include it?

      – palswim
      Jan 31 at 0:57











    • @palswim, rar is simply a proprietary format and the rar tool is an implementation (which has a non-open license). unar is another implementation that is free. Fedora removed the non-free rar tool due to its license, not because of anything regarding the rar format itself

      – Neowizard
      Mar 9 at 7:59














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    You can use unar. This is not related to the non-free unrar, it's free software.






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    You can use unar. This is not related to the non-free unrar, it's free software.







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    • @vonbrand: availability depends on the specific GNU/Linux distribution. For example unar is available for Parabola GNU/Linux-libre. Anyway I didn't mention "unrar", and unar != unrar

      – Francesco Turco
      Feb 23 '16 at 18:06











    • There is also something called unrar-free.

      – neverMind9
      Oct 30 '18 at 21:00












    • If rar is not open source, so much that 7-Zip on OSS distributions will not ship with it, how did unar manage to include it?

      – palswim
      Jan 31 at 0:57











    • @palswim, rar is simply a proprietary format and the rar tool is an implementation (which has a non-open license). unar is another implementation that is free. Fedora removed the non-free rar tool due to its license, not because of anything regarding the rar format itself

      – Neowizard
      Mar 9 at 7:59


















    • @vonbrand: availability depends on the specific GNU/Linux distribution. For example unar is available for Parabola GNU/Linux-libre. Anyway I didn't mention "unrar", and unar != unrar

      – Francesco Turco
      Feb 23 '16 at 18:06











    • There is also something called unrar-free.

      – neverMind9
      Oct 30 '18 at 21:00












    • If rar is not open source, so much that 7-Zip on OSS distributions will not ship with it, how did unar manage to include it?

      – palswim
      Jan 31 at 0:57











    • @palswim, rar is simply a proprietary format and the rar tool is an implementation (which has a non-open license). unar is another implementation that is free. Fedora removed the non-free rar tool due to its license, not because of anything regarding the rar format itself

      – Neowizard
      Mar 9 at 7:59

















    @vonbrand: availability depends on the specific GNU/Linux distribution. For example unar is available for Parabola GNU/Linux-libre. Anyway I didn't mention "unrar", and unar != unrar

    – Francesco Turco
    Feb 23 '16 at 18:06





    @vonbrand: availability depends on the specific GNU/Linux distribution. For example unar is available for Parabola GNU/Linux-libre. Anyway I didn't mention "unrar", and unar != unrar

    – Francesco Turco
    Feb 23 '16 at 18:06













    There is also something called unrar-free.

    – neverMind9
    Oct 30 '18 at 21:00






    There is also something called unrar-free.

    – neverMind9
    Oct 30 '18 at 21:00














    If rar is not open source, so much that 7-Zip on OSS distributions will not ship with it, how did unar manage to include it?

    – palswim
    Jan 31 at 0:57





    If rar is not open source, so much that 7-Zip on OSS distributions will not ship with it, how did unar manage to include it?

    – palswim
    Jan 31 at 0:57













    @palswim, rar is simply a proprietary format and the rar tool is an implementation (which has a non-open license). unar is another implementation that is free. Fedora removed the non-free rar tool due to its license, not because of anything regarding the rar format itself

    – Neowizard
    Mar 9 at 7:59






    @palswim, rar is simply a proprietary format and the rar tool is an implementation (which has a non-open license). unar is another implementation that is free. Fedora removed the non-free rar tool due to its license, not because of anything regarding the rar format itself

    – Neowizard
    Mar 9 at 7:59












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    You can get unar from fedora repo, it's open and licence-pure:



    dnf install unar
    unar file.rar





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    • Not available. unrar is not open source (it is forbidden to analyze the code to reverse engineer a compression program), so Fedora won't ship it.

      – vonbrand
      Feb 23 '16 at 10:24











    • su -c 'dnf install download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/… -E %fedora).noarch.rpm download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/… -E %fedora).noarch.rpm'

      – shcherbak
      Feb 24 '16 at 11:06











    • dnf install unrar

      – shcherbak
      Feb 24 '16 at 11:07











    • also you can use unar for fedora 23. did the author of the question asked about feora or opensource sollution or about unix rar sollution? @vonbrand

      – shcherbak
      Feb 24 '16 at 11:10












    • To install on debian, use: sudo apt-get install unar

      – VectorVortec
      Mar 2 '18 at 18:12
















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    You can get unar from fedora repo, it's open and licence-pure:



    dnf install unar
    unar file.rar





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    • Not available. unrar is not open source (it is forbidden to analyze the code to reverse engineer a compression program), so Fedora won't ship it.

      – vonbrand
      Feb 23 '16 at 10:24











    • su -c 'dnf install download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/… -E %fedora).noarch.rpm download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/… -E %fedora).noarch.rpm'

      – shcherbak
      Feb 24 '16 at 11:06











    • dnf install unrar

      – shcherbak
      Feb 24 '16 at 11:07











    • also you can use unar for fedora 23. did the author of the question asked about feora or opensource sollution or about unix rar sollution? @vonbrand

      – shcherbak
      Feb 24 '16 at 11:10












    • To install on debian, use: sudo apt-get install unar

      – VectorVortec
      Mar 2 '18 at 18:12














    6












    6








    6







    You can get unar from fedora repo, it's open and licence-pure:



    dnf install unar
    unar file.rar





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    You can get unar from fedora repo, it's open and licence-pure:



    dnf install unar
    unar file.rar






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    answered Dec 1 '15 at 8:05









    shcherbakshcherbak

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    • Not available. unrar is not open source (it is forbidden to analyze the code to reverse engineer a compression program), so Fedora won't ship it.

      – vonbrand
      Feb 23 '16 at 10:24











    • su -c 'dnf install download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/… -E %fedora).noarch.rpm download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/… -E %fedora).noarch.rpm'

      – shcherbak
      Feb 24 '16 at 11:06











    • dnf install unrar

      – shcherbak
      Feb 24 '16 at 11:07











    • also you can use unar for fedora 23. did the author of the question asked about feora or opensource sollution or about unix rar sollution? @vonbrand

      – shcherbak
      Feb 24 '16 at 11:10












    • To install on debian, use: sudo apt-get install unar

      – VectorVortec
      Mar 2 '18 at 18:12


















    • Not available. unrar is not open source (it is forbidden to analyze the code to reverse engineer a compression program), so Fedora won't ship it.

      – vonbrand
      Feb 23 '16 at 10:24











    • su -c 'dnf install download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/… -E %fedora).noarch.rpm download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/… -E %fedora).noarch.rpm'

      – shcherbak
      Feb 24 '16 at 11:06











    • dnf install unrar

      – shcherbak
      Feb 24 '16 at 11:07











    • also you can use unar for fedora 23. did the author of the question asked about feora or opensource sollution or about unix rar sollution? @vonbrand

      – shcherbak
      Feb 24 '16 at 11:10












    • To install on debian, use: sudo apt-get install unar

      – VectorVortec
      Mar 2 '18 at 18:12

















    Not available. unrar is not open source (it is forbidden to analyze the code to reverse engineer a compression program), so Fedora won't ship it.

    – vonbrand
    Feb 23 '16 at 10:24





    Not available. unrar is not open source (it is forbidden to analyze the code to reverse engineer a compression program), so Fedora won't ship it.

    – vonbrand
    Feb 23 '16 at 10:24













    su -c 'dnf install download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/… -E %fedora).noarch.rpm download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/… -E %fedora).noarch.rpm'

    – shcherbak
    Feb 24 '16 at 11:06





    su -c 'dnf install download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/… -E %fedora).noarch.rpm download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/… -E %fedora).noarch.rpm'

    – shcherbak
    Feb 24 '16 at 11:06













    dnf install unrar

    – shcherbak
    Feb 24 '16 at 11:07





    dnf install unrar

    – shcherbak
    Feb 24 '16 at 11:07













    also you can use unar for fedora 23. did the author of the question asked about feora or opensource sollution or about unix rar sollution? @vonbrand

    – shcherbak
    Feb 24 '16 at 11:10






    also you can use unar for fedora 23. did the author of the question asked about feora or opensource sollution or about unix rar sollution? @vonbrand

    – shcherbak
    Feb 24 '16 at 11:10














    To install on debian, use: sudo apt-get install unar

    – VectorVortec
    Mar 2 '18 at 18:12






    To install on debian, use: sudo apt-get install unar

    – VectorVortec
    Mar 2 '18 at 18:12












    5














    sudo apt-get install p7zip
    7zr x myfile.rar


    On Windows I rely on 7zip for rar and every other archive file, and it works on Linux, too.






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    • I used this approach and It worked. Thanks.

      – Rodol Velasco
      Jul 3 '18 at 14:03















    5














    sudo apt-get install p7zip
    7zr x myfile.rar


    On Windows I rely on 7zip for rar and every other archive file, and it works on Linux, too.






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    • I used this approach and It worked. Thanks.

      – Rodol Velasco
      Jul 3 '18 at 14:03













    5












    5








    5







    sudo apt-get install p7zip
    7zr x myfile.rar


    On Windows I rely on 7zip for rar and every other archive file, and it works on Linux, too.






    share|improve this answer















    sudo apt-get install p7zip
    7zr x myfile.rar


    On Windows I rely on 7zip for rar and every other archive file, and it works on Linux, too.







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    edited 11 hours ago









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    answered Nov 29 '17 at 2:24









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    • I used this approach and It worked. Thanks.

      – Rodol Velasco
      Jul 3 '18 at 14:03

















    • I used this approach and It worked. Thanks.

      – Rodol Velasco
      Jul 3 '18 at 14:03
















    I used this approach and It worked. Thanks.

    – Rodol Velasco
    Jul 3 '18 at 14:03





    I used this approach and It worked. Thanks.

    – Rodol Velasco
    Jul 3 '18 at 14:03











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    Note that unrar is not open source (the license to the available source forbids using it to reverse engineer the compression, which violates point 6 "No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor" of the Open Source Definition), and thus will not be shipped by Fedora.



    Go to Rar Labs, check out the source for unrar (be careful, the version might have changed!), build and install (you'll need g++ and make), preferably for your account only:



    $ tar zxf unrarsrc-5.3.11.tar.gz
    $ cd unrar
    $ make DESTDIR=$HOME all
    $ make DESTDIR=$HOME install-unrar


    Add $HOME/bin to your PATH, and you are all set.



    Yes, there is a RPM offered. I would't touch it with the proverbial 10 feet pole, more often than not third parties have no clue on how to create a correct RPM (it isn't exactly rocket science, but there are lots of details that have to be just right, see e.g. Fedora's guidelines). Besides, there are differences between Fedora versions, "one size fits all" can't cut it.






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    • worked on my Fedora 23

      – DmitrySemenov
      Jun 18 '16 at 0:50















    2














    Note that unrar is not open source (the license to the available source forbids using it to reverse engineer the compression, which violates point 6 "No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor" of the Open Source Definition), and thus will not be shipped by Fedora.



    Go to Rar Labs, check out the source for unrar (be careful, the version might have changed!), build and install (you'll need g++ and make), preferably for your account only:



    $ tar zxf unrarsrc-5.3.11.tar.gz
    $ cd unrar
    $ make DESTDIR=$HOME all
    $ make DESTDIR=$HOME install-unrar


    Add $HOME/bin to your PATH, and you are all set.



    Yes, there is a RPM offered. I would't touch it with the proverbial 10 feet pole, more often than not third parties have no clue on how to create a correct RPM (it isn't exactly rocket science, but there are lots of details that have to be just right, see e.g. Fedora's guidelines). Besides, there are differences between Fedora versions, "one size fits all" can't cut it.






    share|improve this answer























    • worked on my Fedora 23

      – DmitrySemenov
      Jun 18 '16 at 0:50













    2












    2








    2







    Note that unrar is not open source (the license to the available source forbids using it to reverse engineer the compression, which violates point 6 "No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor" of the Open Source Definition), and thus will not be shipped by Fedora.



    Go to Rar Labs, check out the source for unrar (be careful, the version might have changed!), build and install (you'll need g++ and make), preferably for your account only:



    $ tar zxf unrarsrc-5.3.11.tar.gz
    $ cd unrar
    $ make DESTDIR=$HOME all
    $ make DESTDIR=$HOME install-unrar


    Add $HOME/bin to your PATH, and you are all set.



    Yes, there is a RPM offered. I would't touch it with the proverbial 10 feet pole, more often than not third parties have no clue on how to create a correct RPM (it isn't exactly rocket science, but there are lots of details that have to be just right, see e.g. Fedora's guidelines). Besides, there are differences between Fedora versions, "one size fits all" can't cut it.






    share|improve this answer













    Note that unrar is not open source (the license to the available source forbids using it to reverse engineer the compression, which violates point 6 "No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor" of the Open Source Definition), and thus will not be shipped by Fedora.



    Go to Rar Labs, check out the source for unrar (be careful, the version might have changed!), build and install (you'll need g++ and make), preferably for your account only:



    $ tar zxf unrarsrc-5.3.11.tar.gz
    $ cd unrar
    $ make DESTDIR=$HOME all
    $ make DESTDIR=$HOME install-unrar


    Add $HOME/bin to your PATH, and you are all set.



    Yes, there is a RPM offered. I would't touch it with the proverbial 10 feet pole, more often than not third parties have no clue on how to create a correct RPM (it isn't exactly rocket science, but there are lots of details that have to be just right, see e.g. Fedora's guidelines). Besides, there are differences between Fedora versions, "one size fits all" can't cut it.







    share|improve this answer












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    answered Feb 23 '16 at 12:57









    vonbrandvonbrand

    14.3k22745




    14.3k22745












    • worked on my Fedora 23

      – DmitrySemenov
      Jun 18 '16 at 0:50

















    • worked on my Fedora 23

      – DmitrySemenov
      Jun 18 '16 at 0:50
















    worked on my Fedora 23

    – DmitrySemenov
    Jun 18 '16 at 0:50





    worked on my Fedora 23

    – DmitrySemenov
    Jun 18 '16 at 0:50











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    Use RAR rar e <filename> it comes with most distros. Created by brother of Eugene Rosahal who is the developer of RAR files.






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    • rar is not a inbuilt command

      – shas
      Feb 4 at 5:13






    • 1





      Sorry, my fault. Anyway unrar neither. In fact, there is no way to extract rar files with a inbuilt command.

      – Diego Andrés Díaz Espinoza
      Feb 4 at 10:00















    1














    Use RAR rar e <filename> it comes with most distros. Created by brother of Eugene Rosahal who is the developer of RAR files.






    share|improve this answer























    • rar is not a inbuilt command

      – shas
      Feb 4 at 5:13






    • 1





      Sorry, my fault. Anyway unrar neither. In fact, there is no way to extract rar files with a inbuilt command.

      – Diego Andrés Díaz Espinoza
      Feb 4 at 10:00













    1












    1








    1







    Use RAR rar e <filename> it comes with most distros. Created by brother of Eugene Rosahal who is the developer of RAR files.






    share|improve this answer













    Use RAR rar e <filename> it comes with most distros. Created by brother of Eugene Rosahal who is the developer of RAR files.







    share|improve this answer












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    answered Feb 1 at 16:20









    Diego Andrés Díaz EspinozaDiego Andrés Díaz Espinoza

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    • rar is not a inbuilt command

      – shas
      Feb 4 at 5:13






    • 1





      Sorry, my fault. Anyway unrar neither. In fact, there is no way to extract rar files with a inbuilt command.

      – Diego Andrés Díaz Espinoza
      Feb 4 at 10:00

















    • rar is not a inbuilt command

      – shas
      Feb 4 at 5:13






    • 1





      Sorry, my fault. Anyway unrar neither. In fact, there is no way to extract rar files with a inbuilt command.

      – Diego Andrés Díaz Espinoza
      Feb 4 at 10:00
















    rar is not a inbuilt command

    – shas
    Feb 4 at 5:13





    rar is not a inbuilt command

    – shas
    Feb 4 at 5:13




    1




    1





    Sorry, my fault. Anyway unrar neither. In fact, there is no way to extract rar files with a inbuilt command.

    – Diego Andrés Díaz Espinoza
    Feb 4 at 10:00





    Sorry, my fault. Anyway unrar neither. In fact, there is no way to extract rar files with a inbuilt command.

    – Diego Andrés Díaz Espinoza
    Feb 4 at 10:00











    0














    I'd suggest using a nearest available file manager, either Norton-like (Midnight Commander, Double Commander, Tux Commander, etc., whatever is present in your distribution) or window-based (as Dolphin). Most of them have enough intelligence to open all kinds of archives in a manner suitable for manual contents exploring, but, sometimes, they use external tools. For instance, my Kubuntu suggests Ark in such cases. They would need an external tool, as unrar, for accessing proprietary archive formats; if so, install the latter using a package manager.



    If you want to extract the entire archive or a single specified file, unrar e extracts without full path, and unrar x also makes intermediate directories.






    share|improve this answer























    • Since unrar is not open source, Fedora won't ship support for it in any form.

      – vonbrand
      Feb 23 '16 at 12:59











    • @vonbrand Ubuntu provides both unrar and unrar-free. If Fedora can't include the latter, it's not a license issue.

      – Netch
      Feb 27 '16 at 20:04











    • @vonbrand moreover, there is no word for Fedora from original author. Your approach to limit question to the only non-most-used distribution is destructive.

      – Netch
      Feb 27 '16 at 20:09
















    0














    I'd suggest using a nearest available file manager, either Norton-like (Midnight Commander, Double Commander, Tux Commander, etc., whatever is present in your distribution) or window-based (as Dolphin). Most of them have enough intelligence to open all kinds of archives in a manner suitable for manual contents exploring, but, sometimes, they use external tools. For instance, my Kubuntu suggests Ark in such cases. They would need an external tool, as unrar, for accessing proprietary archive formats; if so, install the latter using a package manager.



    If you want to extract the entire archive or a single specified file, unrar e extracts without full path, and unrar x also makes intermediate directories.






    share|improve this answer























    • Since unrar is not open source, Fedora won't ship support for it in any form.

      – vonbrand
      Feb 23 '16 at 12:59











    • @vonbrand Ubuntu provides both unrar and unrar-free. If Fedora can't include the latter, it's not a license issue.

      – Netch
      Feb 27 '16 at 20:04











    • @vonbrand moreover, there is no word for Fedora from original author. Your approach to limit question to the only non-most-used distribution is destructive.

      – Netch
      Feb 27 '16 at 20:09














    0












    0








    0







    I'd suggest using a nearest available file manager, either Norton-like (Midnight Commander, Double Commander, Tux Commander, etc., whatever is present in your distribution) or window-based (as Dolphin). Most of them have enough intelligence to open all kinds of archives in a manner suitable for manual contents exploring, but, sometimes, they use external tools. For instance, my Kubuntu suggests Ark in such cases. They would need an external tool, as unrar, for accessing proprietary archive formats; if so, install the latter using a package manager.



    If you want to extract the entire archive or a single specified file, unrar e extracts without full path, and unrar x also makes intermediate directories.






    share|improve this answer













    I'd suggest using a nearest available file manager, either Norton-like (Midnight Commander, Double Commander, Tux Commander, etc., whatever is present in your distribution) or window-based (as Dolphin). Most of them have enough intelligence to open all kinds of archives in a manner suitable for manual contents exploring, but, sometimes, they use external tools. For instance, my Kubuntu suggests Ark in such cases. They would need an external tool, as unrar, for accessing proprietary archive formats; if so, install the latter using a package manager.



    If you want to extract the entire archive or a single specified file, unrar e extracts without full path, and unrar x also makes intermediate directories.







    share|improve this answer












    share|improve this answer



    share|improve this answer










    answered Dec 1 '15 at 6:25









    NetchNetch

    1,9221010




    1,9221010












    • Since unrar is not open source, Fedora won't ship support for it in any form.

      – vonbrand
      Feb 23 '16 at 12:59











    • @vonbrand Ubuntu provides both unrar and unrar-free. If Fedora can't include the latter, it's not a license issue.

      – Netch
      Feb 27 '16 at 20:04











    • @vonbrand moreover, there is no word for Fedora from original author. Your approach to limit question to the only non-most-used distribution is destructive.

      – Netch
      Feb 27 '16 at 20:09


















    • Since unrar is not open source, Fedora won't ship support for it in any form.

      – vonbrand
      Feb 23 '16 at 12:59











    • @vonbrand Ubuntu provides both unrar and unrar-free. If Fedora can't include the latter, it's not a license issue.

      – Netch
      Feb 27 '16 at 20:04











    • @vonbrand moreover, there is no word for Fedora from original author. Your approach to limit question to the only non-most-used distribution is destructive.

      – Netch
      Feb 27 '16 at 20:09

















    Since unrar is not open source, Fedora won't ship support for it in any form.

    – vonbrand
    Feb 23 '16 at 12:59





    Since unrar is not open source, Fedora won't ship support for it in any form.

    – vonbrand
    Feb 23 '16 at 12:59













    @vonbrand Ubuntu provides both unrar and unrar-free. If Fedora can't include the latter, it's not a license issue.

    – Netch
    Feb 27 '16 at 20:04





    @vonbrand Ubuntu provides both unrar and unrar-free. If Fedora can't include the latter, it's not a license issue.

    – Netch
    Feb 27 '16 at 20:04













    @vonbrand moreover, there is no word for Fedora from original author. Your approach to limit question to the only non-most-used distribution is destructive.

    – Netch
    Feb 27 '16 at 20:09






    @vonbrand moreover, there is no word for Fedora from original author. Your approach to limit question to the only non-most-used distribution is destructive.

    – Netch
    Feb 27 '16 at 20:09












    0














    Install the unrar package. On Fedora, for eample, you can do so with:



    sudo yum install unrar


    Then, use it to extract the files:



    unrar e filename.rar





    share|improve this answer

























    • Fedora 23 has no unrar package among its official packages. I got the source an installed it in my account.

      – vonbrand
      Feb 23 '16 at 10:20











    • This is completely misleading. There is no such package.

      – vonbrand
      Feb 23 '16 at 20:49















    0














    Install the unrar package. On Fedora, for eample, you can do so with:



    sudo yum install unrar


    Then, use it to extract the files:



    unrar e filename.rar





    share|improve this answer

























    • Fedora 23 has no unrar package among its official packages. I got the source an installed it in my account.

      – vonbrand
      Feb 23 '16 at 10:20











    • This is completely misleading. There is no such package.

      – vonbrand
      Feb 23 '16 at 20:49













    0












    0








    0







    Install the unrar package. On Fedora, for eample, you can do so with:



    sudo yum install unrar


    Then, use it to extract the files:



    unrar e filename.rar





    share|improve this answer















    Install the unrar package. On Fedora, for eample, you can do so with:



    sudo yum install unrar


    Then, use it to extract the files:



    unrar e filename.rar






    share|improve this answer














    share|improve this answer



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    edited Dec 1 '15 at 12:24









    terdon

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    answered Dec 1 '15 at 10:27









    Ramesh Chand KalirawanaRamesh Chand Kalirawana

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    • Fedora 23 has no unrar package among its official packages. I got the source an installed it in my account.

      – vonbrand
      Feb 23 '16 at 10:20











    • This is completely misleading. There is no such package.

      – vonbrand
      Feb 23 '16 at 20:49

















    • Fedora 23 has no unrar package among its official packages. I got the source an installed it in my account.

      – vonbrand
      Feb 23 '16 at 10:20











    • This is completely misleading. There is no such package.

      – vonbrand
      Feb 23 '16 at 20:49
















    Fedora 23 has no unrar package among its official packages. I got the source an installed it in my account.

    – vonbrand
    Feb 23 '16 at 10:20





    Fedora 23 has no unrar package among its official packages. I got the source an installed it in my account.

    – vonbrand
    Feb 23 '16 at 10:20













    This is completely misleading. There is no such package.

    – vonbrand
    Feb 23 '16 at 20:49





    This is completely misleading. There is no such package.

    – vonbrand
    Feb 23 '16 at 20:49











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    On Ubuntu, you have a GUI solution, Archive Manager. It provides extraction of such archive files as .rar files.






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      On Ubuntu, you have a GUI solution, Archive Manager. It provides extraction of such archive files as .rar files.






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        On Ubuntu, you have a GUI solution, Archive Manager. It provides extraction of such archive files as .rar files.






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        On Ubuntu, you have a GUI solution, Archive Manager. It provides extraction of such archive files as .rar files.







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