Jamie Le Souef

I’ve been using windows for a long time now. And I’ve been using winRAR for almost the same length of time. But to my absolute horror I found that Ubuntu doesn’t nativly support extracting rar files. SHOCK HORROR!

But alas, in my journey to gain a better understanding of Ubuntu and GNU/Linux in general (trying CentOS 5 out now in a virtual enviroment) I found the answer.

Open a terminal window and type in:

1. sudo apt-get install rar
2. sudo ln -fs /usr/bin/rar /usr/bin/unrar

Once installed Gnome’s Archive Managmer will recognise rar files.

Yay!

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