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Old 01-19-2006   #1 (permalink)
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unarchiving rar files...

Ok... for the beggining, i use debian 3.1 sarge and unrar package is not free. I downloaded the unrar-free package and try install it. I found that i need a newer version of libc6. I wasn't able to find, and i get an ubuntu version of libc6. I've install it, install unrar-free and dosen't work. Failed at unraring files. I tryed this on more archives, so is not because the archive is broked. i remembered of ark for kde and install it. When i try to open an .rar file, i'm getting the folowing message:

the utility unrar is not in your PATH. Please install it or contact your system administrator.

what should i do? thanks in advance.
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do
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which unrar
and then

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echo PATH=$PATH:/path/to/unrar
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install the 'rar' package too.
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add non-free to your sources (i.e. main contrib non-free) and do
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apt-get install unrar
then extract archives with "unrar x"
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nothing worked... If is not a free version, i don't think i'm abble to download it... rar package dosen't exist.
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By "non-free" it just means that it is not under a free software (no freedom to modify source code, etc.) license; but the stuff there are all open-source and freely distributable and usable.
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Oh... sorry. Thanks. Now is working.
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Thanks for the info guys, I was having this problem too, on Kubuntu 6.06 using Ark. A simple
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sudo apt-get install unrar
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