How Do I Open .rar? [SOLVED]

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Maheriano · Post by **Maheriano** » Wed Dec 28, 2005 5:20 am

No idea....

codergeek42 · Post by **codergeek42** » Wed Dec 28, 2005 5:22 am

app-arch/unrar can help you here.

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# emerge unrar

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$ unrar /path/to/archive.rar

Hope that helps!

asiobob · Post by **asiobob** » Wed Dec 28, 2005 5:22 am

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emerge rar -va

http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=%5Erar%24

asiobob · Post by **asiobob** » Wed Dec 28, 2005 5:23 am

heheh you got the submit button a few seconds before me codergeek :p

Maheriano · Post by **Maheriano** » Wed Dec 28, 2005 5:24 am

*jumps back*

Holy crap, that was quick! Had to get out of the way of that train, thanks guys!

sirdilznik · Post by **sirdilznik** » Wed Dec 28, 2005 5:28 am

BTW once you have the unrar package installed you can use a gui archiver like ark or guitar to open .rar files.

Maheriano · Post by **Maheriano** » Wed Dec 28, 2005 5:36 am

sirdilznik wrote:BTW once you have the unrar package installed you can use a gui archiver like ark or guitar to open .rar files.

uwahhh?

Po0ky · Post by **Po0ky** » Wed Dec 28, 2005 8:01 am

codergeek42 wrote:[
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$ unrar /path/to/archive.rar

Don't forget to eXtract

unrar x archive.rar
(That damn 'x' is givin me headaches every time.. )

AngryTom · Post by **AngryTom** » Wed Dec 28, 2005 8:42 am

or use WINE or CEDEGA to run WinRAR for example

it works for me perfectly (all types of archives including tars bz2s etc.)

bladus · Post by **bladus** » Wed Dec 28, 2005 1:47 pm

AngryTom wrote:or use WINE or CEDEGA to run WinRAR for example it works for me perfectly (all types of archives including tars bz2s etc.)

but it's not free, so you either buy it or you use the trial-version.

ograndedienne · Post by **ograndedienne** » Wed Dec 28, 2005 5:45 pm

why this thread is in Multimedia forum?

StifflerStealth · Post by **StifflerStealth** » Wed Dec 28, 2005 5:54 pm

This question goes along the same lines, so I will post it here.

After upgrading kde to version 3.5.0, I lost the ability to right-click a .rar file and choose an extract option. All the other compression formats have that except .rar. I need to choose open with ark then extract, that's a pain compared to just saying extract here or extract to a directory that is the same name as the file, and stuff like that. Any ideas?

Thanks

Maheriano · Post by **Maheriano** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 7:35 am

I'm trying to unrar a pile of N64 Roms and I get an error on one of the files halfway through....

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Extracting  Paper Mario (U).v64                                       56%
Write error in the file Paper Mario (U).v64 [R]etry, [A]bort A
Write error in the file Paper Mario (U).v64
Program aborted

So then I try to exclude this file when doing the unrar but I can't figure it out. Can someone give me the line of code I need? This is what I have so far...

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dan@tux ~/Desktop/N64 $ unrar e -o- -x<Paper Mario \(U\).v64> N64RomsandEmulator.rar

First it complained about the ( and ) so I fixed that but now I don't know what to put in place of the spaces in the filename. It doesn't like %20 so I'm at a loss. Thanks.

PaulBredbury · Post by **PaulBredbury** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 7:48 am

Maheriano wrote:I don't know what to put in place of the spaces in the filename.

Wrap the filename, unaltered, in single quotes.

Maheriano · Post by **Maheriano** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 8:14 am

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dan@tux ~/Desktop/N64 $ unrar e -o- -x'Paper Mario (U).v64' N64RomsandEmulator.rar

UNRAR 3.40 freeware      Copyright (c) 1993-2004 Alexander Roshal


Extracting from N64RomsandEmulator.rar

Extracting  Paper Mario (U).v64                                       56%
Write error in the file Paper Mario (U).v64 [R]etry, [A]bort r

Write error in the file Paper Mario (U).v64 [R]etry, [A]bort a

Write error in the file Paper Mario (U).v64
Program aborted

Why does it continue to try?