Which Linux tool shall I run to decompress/read .rar files

**satimis** · 04-01-2007

Hi folks,

I download following files;
John.Wiley.and.Sons.Linux.Troubleshooting.Bible.eB ook-LiB.part1.rar
John.Wiley.and.Sons.Linux.Troubleshooting.Bible.eB ook-LiB.part2.rar

on;
http://ebook.manboo.info/archives/li...ing-bible.html

I don't have "WinRAR archive manager" here. Which Linux tool can I run to decompress/read the files. TIA

Is there Open Source ebook/doc equivalent to "Red Hat Fedora and Enterprise Linux 4 Bible' by Christopher Negus". Tks

B.R.
satimis

**bryansmith** · 04-01-2007

You want the package unrar. Check your package manager for that.

**satimis** · 04-01-2007

Originally Posted by bryansmith

You want the package unrar. Check your package manager for that.

Hi bryansmith

CentOS 4.4

# yum search unrar

Code:

Searching Packages: 
Setting up repositories
kbs-CentOS-Extras         100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00     
update                    100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00     
base                      100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00     
addons                    100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00     
extras                    100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00     
Reading repository metadata in from local files
No Matches found

Not available on repository.

B.R.
satimis

**bryansmith** · 04-01-2007

I do not know of may CentOS repositories (in other words, I don't know of many RHEL repos) so I can't help that way. Try google to see if you can come up with an rpm.

By the way, is that site legal?

**satimis** · 04-01-2007

Hi bryansmith,

I will read the files on FC6

By the way, is that site legal?

I have no idea. Just found it on Internet on googling.

satimis

**Thrillhouse** · 04-02-2007

unrar is a proprietary format so it wouldn't likely be in any Redhat based distro's repositories. I came across this HOW-TO on a Google search.

**satimis** · 04-02-2007

Originally Posted by Thrillhouse

unrar is a proprietary format so it wouldn't likely be in any Redhat based distro's repositories. I came across this HOW-TO on a Google search.

Hi Thrillhouse,

CentOS 4.4 amd64 (x86_64)

Tks for your URL.

Tests performed according to the posting.
$ wget http://dag.wieers.com/packages/unrar....rf.x86_64.rpm

package download.

I have no idea why it suggests to run (package already download) ;
$ rpm -Uvh http://dag.wieers.com/packages/unrar....rf.x86_64.rpm

Code:

Retrieving http://dag.wieers.com/packages/unrar/unrar-3.6.8-1.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm
error: skipping http://dag.wieers.com/packages/unrar/unrar-3.6.8-1.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm - transfer failed - Unknown or unexpected error

$ rpm -Uvh unrar-3.6.8-1.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm

Code:

error: Failed dependencies:
        libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.4)(64bit) is needed by unrar-3.6.8-1.el5.rf.x86_64
        rtld(GNU_HASH) is needed by unrar-3.6.8-1.el5.rf.x86_64

Still failed.

I looked at;
http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/FAQ.php#B

unable to figure out where to find "dag.repo" for download so that I can install it on my OS

satimis

**Thrillhouse** · 04-02-2007

satimis, you're right. those commands are a little redundant. Didn't look too closely at them the first time.

You should be able to find glibc in your package manager. That's a fairly common package. The other one I'm not too sure about. I queried my system a few times to try and find anything along the lines of rtld, gnu_hash or gnu-hash but couldn't find anything like that. The only thing that came close was gdbm but I doubt that's what's required here.

Did you try any of those commands on the link you posted? Maybe the RHEL 4 one would be compatible with your CentOS install. If not, you could always remove the repo.

Code:

$rpm -Uhv http://apt.sw.be/packages/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el4.rf.x86_64.rpm

**satimis** · 04-02-2007

Hi folks,

FC6

# yum search unrar

Code:

....
qcomicbook.x86_64                        0.3.4-1.fc6            installed       
Matched from:
QComicBook is a viewer for comic book archives: rar, cbr,
zip, cbz, ace, cba,tar.gz, cbg, tar.bz2, cbb. QComicBook
aims at convenience and simplicity. Features include:
automatic decompression, full-screen mode, two pages mode,
japanese mode, thumbnails view, page scaling and rotating,
page preloading and caching, mouse or keyboard navigation,
bookmarks etc.

QComicBook requires zip/unzip, rar/unrar, tar with
gzip+bzip2 support and unace to handle archives.

No x86_64 version available.

Installed "qcomicbook.x86_64" but can't read the .rar files.

satimis

**satimis** · 04-02-2007

Hi folks,

FC6

I solved my problem as follows;

Download
unrar-3.7.4-1.lvn6.x86_64.rpm
on;
http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/6/x86_64...w/U.group.html

As root rpm installed it without complaint. Both qcomibook and unrar are running;

$ which unrar
/usr/bin/unrar

$ which qcomicbook
/usr/bin/qcomicbook

# yum install gnochm

$ unrar /path/to/
John.Wiley.and.Sons.Linux.Troubleshooting.Bible.eB ook-LiB.part1.rar
John.Wiley.and.Sons.Linux.Troubleshooting.Bible.eB ook-LiB.part2.rar
(both files must be present)

$ ls

Code:

...
John.Wiley.and.Sons.Linux.Troubleshooting.Bible.eBook-LiB.chm
...

# gnochm John.Wiley.and.Sons.Linux.Troubleshooting.Bible.eB ook-LiB.chm

to read the file.

I'm still searching how to integrade unrar to qcomicbook.

B.R.
satimis

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