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Ok, I hope this is the right section? Well anyway I have unrar-free installed and when I try to extract something I get Code: Extracting example.txt Failed 1 Failed this ...
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    unrar-free

    Ok, I hope this is the right section? Well anyway I have unrar-free installed and when I try to extract something I get
    Code:
    Extracting  example.txt                                           Failed
    1 Failed
    this is what I Do;
    unrar-free x blah.rar

    and thats what I get.. what do i do?

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    I havent used rar-free but I use this with no problems..there are versions for many distros here.
    WinRAR archiver, a powerful tool to process RAR and ZIP files

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    but its not free.

    Just curious, have you tried to unrar using sudo or as root?

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    unrar

    You are right Winrar is not free but if you follow the link you will see that there are free unrar utilities.Im using the Slackware tgz which is beta freeware.

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    ok when i try to use it it says;

    Code:
    unrar: /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.4' not found (required by unrar)
    where can i get that

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    :~$ su -c "apt-get update && apt-get install build-essential"

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    Quote Originally Posted by k0rfain View Post
    ok when i try to use it it says;

    Code:
    unrar: /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.4' not found (required by unrar)
    where can i get that
    i have the same problem...
    Code:
    su -c "apt-get update && apt-get install build-essential"
    didn't help

    i also tried to install the newest version of rar/unrar packages...

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