How to open .RAR files in Ubuntu

RAR is a proprietary compression format, owned by the company rarlabs.
Like the acquaintance WinRAR en WindowsThis compression format also exists for GNU / Linux. This is used to compress and decompress files in * .rar format. As it is not installed by default, it is necessary that we install it manually.

This program is used through a terminal, that is, it does not have a graphical interface and requires commands to compress and decompress. There are graphical applications that facilitate this task.

Installation

The easiest way to handle rar files (in Gnome) is to go to the applications menu and select Add and Remove ... Once there they search for "rar", when the search is finished, select the RAR compression / uncompression tool application and then apply changes. Once downloaded and installed they can handle the rar files.

From the repositories

In order to work with RAR files, we have 2 options:

+ Install the package Unrar which will only allow us to unzip .rar files from our preferred archive manager.

+ Install the package rare which will allow us to compress in .rar format for 40 days (since it is a shareware program) and decompress .rar files from our preferred archive manager.

The most recommended option is to install the unrar package to have support for the .rar files and compress them in .tar.gz, a free, free and widely used format on GNU / Linux, Windows and Mac.

From source code

We can also compile it from the source code, for that we must follow the following steps:

1. Install the following packages:

libstdc ++ 5 make

2. Download the source code:

http://rarlabs.com/rar/rarlinux-3.8.0.tar.gz (773 kB)

3. Unzip the source code:

$ tar -xvzf rarlinux-3.8.0.tar.gz

4. Go to the folder where the source code was unzipped:

$ cd rar

5. Install the program:

$ sudo make install

6. Go back to the previous folder:

$cd..

7. Delete downloaded files and folder, which are no longer needed:

$ rm -R rar *

These last two steps are optional, they only serve to remove unnecessary files.

Use

To use the command Unrar:

$unrar  - - < @list of files...> 
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Commandos

e Extract files in current directory
 l [t, b] List archive [technical, bare] p Print file to stdout
 t Test archive files
 v [t, b] Verbosely list archive [technical, bare] x Extract files with full path

Parameters

- Stop switches scanning
 ad Append archive name to destination path
 ap      Set path inside archive
 av- Disable authenticity verification
 c- Disable message presentation
 cfg- Disable read settings
 cl Convert names to lowercase
 cu Convert names to uppercase
 dh Open shared files
 ep Exclude paths from names
 ep3 Expand paths to full including the drive letter
 f Freshen files
 id [c, d, p, q] Disable messages
 ierr Send all messages to stderr
 inul Disable all messages
 kb Keep broken extracted files
 n       Include only specified files
 n @ Read file names to include from stdin
 n@      Include files from specified file list
 or + Overwrite existing files
 o- Do not overwrite existing files
 or Rename files automatically
 ow Save or restore user and group owners of the file
 p [password] Set password
 p- Do not ask for password
 r Recurse subdirectories
 sl      Process files with size less than specified
 sm      Process files with size more than specified
 ta      Process files modified after  in YYYYMMDDHHMMSS format
 tb      Process files modified before  in YYYYMMDDHHMMSS format
 tn      Process files newer than 
 to      Process files older than 
 ts[N] Save or restore file time (modification, creation, access)
 u Update files
 v List all volumes
 see [n] File version control
 vp Pause before each volume
 x       Exclude the specified files
 x @ Read file names to exclude from stdin
 x@      Exclude files from the specified file list
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And now we can compress and decompress files in this format.

RAR compatible programs

Besides the program rare original, there are other programs that are capable of working with files RAR. For example, File Roller of the environment GNOME.

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