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Rar & unrar with Ubuntu July 5th 2006, ricardo
Yesterday I found something that was a bit tricky with ubuntu. I downloaded some stuff that was compressed in a .rar file and when I was looking for a program that was able to handle the files I found Ark and Xarchiver. Two "goo enough" tools that aparently were able to do the job. However they cann't handle the files like out-of-the-box. You need to install manually rar and unrar. After searching internet and following some solutions with unrar-free and things like that I tried something that was even easier.

1. Install Ark / Xarchiver
2. Download the latest version of RAR (now is RAR 3.60 beta 6).
3. Uncompress the file anywhere.
4. Open a Terminal and do this:

cd /usr/bin
cp /wherever/you/uncompressed/the/files/rar .
cp /wherever/you/uncompressed/the/files/unrar .

That's it! Enjoy!

UPDATE!! ( 26 / 10 / 07 )
Nowadays it's much more simple than that:

1. Open a console
2. sudo apt-get install rar
3. sudo apt-get install unrar
5 comments

Thnaks!
October 9th 2006, dafc
hey! no probs! :D
October 10th 2006, mr.doob
Thanks man for the tipps, u save my day
December 5th 2006, lool
thanks!
February 10th 2007, lila
Great tip!!!
March 31st 2007, SethPlate