How to open .rar file in fedora 23
I am using fedora 23 64 bit. I have downloaded some .rar files.
After googling I have found solutions suggesting that using unrar they can be opened.
But I am unable to install unrar. I have tried the following steps after googling to install but failed.
Solution 1:
For free-release:
su -c 'yum localinstall --nogpgcheck http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm'
For nonfree-release:
su -c 'yum localinstall --nogpgcheck http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree`/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm'`
To install unrar:
Run the following command in terminal and type the password for the user, when prompted.
sudo yum install unrar
Solution 2:
# wget http://pkgs.repoforge.org/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm
# rpm -Uvh rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm
yum install unrar
But nothing is working. My system is up to date.
How can I open .rar files in fedora?
Solution 1:
Install the unar package.
$ dnf info unar
...
Name : unar
Arch : x86_64
Epoch : 0
Version : 1.10.1
Release : 1.fc24
Size : 4.6 M
Repo : @System
From repo : updates
Summary : Multi-format extractor
URL : http://unarchiver.c3.cx/commandline
License : LGPLv2+
Description : The command-line utilities lsar and unar are capable of listing
: and extracting files respectively in several formats including
: RARv3. unar can serve as a free and open source replacement of
: unrar.
$ sudo dnf install unar
The Archive Manager (gui application) will be able to open .rar files.
Solution 2:
.rar is the extension used by Winrar to compress files and they are like Zip files but in a different format. Many other programs can decompress it and you should download the free 7-Zip which is amongst the best from here http://www.7-zip.org/download.html, choose your flavor of operating system in your case Fedora, install and use that to unrar your file