installing unrar

[seifullaah73]

firstly i was able to unrar files in the terminal and everything and after i checked the post of solution to rar password file i read the reply of installing unrar so i typed apt-get install unrar to know that this the way to install unrar and posted reply
and now i can't unrar files
i typed apt-get install unrar again and it goes through but still nothing
here is the result of the apt-get install unrar

Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
unrar
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 removed and 123 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/18.5kB of archives.
After unpacking 179kB of additional disk space will be used.
Committing changes...
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
1:unrar ########################################### [100%]
error: unpacking of archive failed: cpio: Bad magic
You don't seem to have one or more of the needed GPG keys in your RPM database.
Importing them now...
GPG key not imported correctly
GPG id: gpg-pubkey-5f6842a4-3f045b8b
File: /usr/lib/rpm/gnupg/packman-henvol.asc
apt executing: /sbin/SuSEconfig
Starting SuSEconfig, the SuSE Configuration Tool...
Running in full featured mode.
Reading /etc/sysconfig and updating the system...
Executing /sbin/conf.d/SuSEconfig.desktop-file-utils...
Executing /sbin/conf.d/SuSEconfig.fonts...
Creating cache files for Xft .........................
Creating fonts.{scale,dir} files .........
generating java font setup
writing /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun-1.5.0_03/jre/lib/fontconfig.SuSE.properties
writing /etc/fonts/suse-hinting.conf
writing /etc/fonts/suse-bitmaps.conf
Executing /sbin/conf.d/SuSEconfig.groff...
Executing /sbin/conf.d/SuSEconfig.gtk2...
Executing /sbin/conf.d/SuSEconfig.kde...
Executing /sbin/conf.d/SuSEconfig.kdm3...
Executing /sbin/conf.d/SuSEconfig.libxml2...
Executing /sbin/conf.d/SuSEconfig.news...
Executing /sbin/conf.d/SuSEconfig.pango...
Executing /sbin/conf.d/SuSEconfig.perl...
Executing /sbin/conf.d/SuSEconfig.permissions...
Executing /sbin/conf.d/SuSEconfig.postfix...
Setting up postfix local as MDA...
Setting SPAM protection to "off"...
Executing /sbin/conf.d/SuSEconfig.prelink...
running prelink, can take a long time .../usr/sbin/prelink: /usr/lib/NX/nxviewer: Could not find one of the dependencies
/usr/sbin/prelink: /usr/lib/NX/nxdesktop: Could not find one of the dependencies
/usr/sbin/prelink: /usr/lib/NX/nxagent: Could not find one of the dependencies
/usr/sbin/prelink: /usr/lib/NX/nxproxy: Could not find one of the dependencies
/usr/sbin/prelink: /opt/MozillaFirefox/lib/firefox-bin: Could not find one of the dependencies
/usr/sbin/prelink: /usr/sbin/xcmd: shared library /usr/lib/libsax.so.7.1.0 appears possibly non-PIC and contains conflicts. Symbol offset: 45f199b8
/usr/sbin/prelink: /usr/sbin/xapi: shared library /usr/lib/libsax.so.7.1.0 appears possibly non-PIC and contains conflicts. Symbol offset: 45f199b8

Executing /sbin/conf.d/SuSEconfig.scpm...
Executing /sbin/conf.d/SuSEconfig.sortpasswd...
Executing /sbin/conf.d/SuSEconfig.susehelp...
DOCALLOW: localhost
Executing /sbin/conf.d/SuSEconfig.syslog-ng...
Executing /sbin/conf.d/SuSEconfig.xdm...
Executing /sbin/conf.d/SuSEconfig.xpdf...
Executing /sbin/conf.d/SuSEconfig.zmessages...
Finished.
apt executing: /sbin/ldconfig
W: Some errors occurred while running transaction

any ideas

this is really annoying is this the sort of bug that are common with linux im starting to prefer windows even more then linux then i use to as all i need is winrar.

[gogalthorp]

Why did you not use Yast to install it is a lot more intelligent then Apt-get

unrar is in the suse repository. Install from there and you won't have a problem.

You can't follow instructions that pertain to a different distro, unless you really know what you are doing. Stick with Yast and the Suse and community repositories and you won't have problems. Also it is a lot easier then Windows.

If you must have a package that is not in one of the repositories then you must resort to compiling from source.

[HROAdmin26]

If you were able to unrar your files, why did you try and install the same/another app?

I am curious how you have apt-get installed? What SuSE do you have installed? I am not sure about 11, but no previous SuSE has apt-get installed by default - it's not a native SuSE utility (as mentioned previously.)

If you want something command line (like apt-get) in SuSE, you can use the zypper command.

zypper in unrar

I don't know how else to say this - If you don't know what you're doing, of course you're going to make mistakes. It's a learning process. Also, this is not Windows. If you prefer Windows, then by all means use whatever works best for you.

Checking a pretty general SuSE 10.3 install, it looks like unrar is installed by default:

zypper se unrar

S | Repository                   | Type    | Name  | Version | Arch
--+------------------------------+---------+-------+---------+-----
i | 10.3 - Main Repository (OSS) | package | unrar | 3.70-21 | i586

To fix your problem, you can try removing and then reinstalling the app:

zypper rm unrar

zypper in unrar

[seifullaah73]

i tried to install it via YaST i went to software then software management and searched for unrar and nothing found.

zypper does not work

any ideas pls i can't open rar files anymore

[gogalthorp]

What repositories do you have active. Which version of Suse? I use 10.2 and it shows up in the opensuse repository.

Did you install Apt-get? from where.

[seifullaah73]

no i didn't install apt-get
it came with opensuse installation

do you think i should install apt-get and how would you do it.

[HROAdmin26]

What is the result of running:

cat /etc/*release

???

[gogalthorp]

No don't!!!!!

It is not installed on mine and I don't think it is installed by default.

Use zypper or Yast to install.

Why can't you use Yast?

You have not said what version of Suse???? This can make a difference.

[seifullaah73]

I did mention which version of Suse i am using it is OpenSuse 10.0
i tried to install apt again using apt-get install apt as i couldn't find apt-get in YaST
then i tried apt-get install unrar but it didn't go through an error came segmentation error.
thanks all for your help but the problem is solved.

[seifullaah73]

here is the solution of what i did to make it work

Install unrar command

Under Debian Linux, you need to type apt-get as follows to install unrar program:
Code:

# apt-get install unrar

then when i read on it said if the above doesn't work try the following

If any of above, methods is not working for you, download binary package from official rarlab site :
Code:
$ cd /tmp
$ wget http://www.rarlab.com/rar/rarlinux-3.6.0.tar.gz


Untar file
Code:
$ tar -zxvf rarlinux-3.6.0.tar.gz


Both unrar and rar commands are located in rar sub-directory. Just go to rar directory:
Code:
$ cd rar
$ ./unrar


Now copy rar and unrar to /bin directory:
Code:
# cp rar unrar /bin

source - Open rar file or Extract rar files under Linux or UNIX

And this made the command unrar work
thanks everyone for your help
keep up the good work