[SOLVED] opening rar

[t28]

I cannot access rar files with Ark(pre-installed) or with Unrar(installed via Software Management, but maybe I need to do more before it is installed because it doesn't show up in a menu search).
In the terminal, I tried "unrar e filename.rar" suggested here which didn't produce any result except bad command.
I want to get either of these to work instead of trying to install something else like this.

[mikesd]

Can you post the error you get when you run

unrar e file.rar

Try

unrar x file.rar

That should extract the w/ full path.

Also make sure you have unrar installed.

Do

 zypper in unrar

or search for it in Yast --> Software Management

[t28]

i tried this following command from here
wget http://dag.wieers.com/packages/unrar...l4.rf.i386.rpm

Here are the results:

--2009-09-19 13:34:40-- http://dag.wieers.com/packages/unrar...l4.rf.i386.rpm
Resolving dag.wieers.com...
62.213.193.164
Connecting to dag.wieers.com|62.213.193.164|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently
Location: http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/u...l4.rf.i386.rpm [following]
--2009-09-19 13:34:41-- http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/u...l4.rf.i386.rpm
Reusing existing connection to dag.wieers.com:80.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location: http://rpmforge.sw.be/redhat/el4/en/...l4.rf.i386.rpm [following]
--2009-09-19 13:34:42-- http://rpmforge.sw.be/redhat/el4/en/...l4.rf.i386.rpm
Resolving rpmforge.sw.be... 130.133.35.16
Connecting to rpmforge.sw.be|130.133.35.16|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 102481 (100K) [application/x-rpm]
Saving to: `unrar-3.6.2-1.el4.rf.i386.rpm'

And then...

rpm -Uvh http://dag.wieers.com/packages/unrar...l4.rf.i386.rpm

The results were...

Retrieving http://dag.wieers.com/packages/unrar...l4.rf.i386.rpm
error: skipping http://dag.wieers.com/packages/unrar...l4.rf.i386.rpm - transfer failed - Unknown or unexpected error
warning: u 0x808d0f8 ctrl 0x808d5c0 nrefs != 0 (dag.wieers.com http)

[t28]

Query : unrar e 0262693135.rar
Result : bash: unrar: command not found

Query : unrar x 0262693135.rar
Result : bash: unrar: command not found

Query : zypper in unrar
Result : Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
'unrar' not found.
Resolving package dependencies...
Nothing to do.

In Yast>Software Management> I have the following files installed unrar-debuginfo (3.80.2-1.41) and unrar-debugsource (3.80.2-1.41). The only two that appear in a search for unrar.
In Repositories>Community Repositories>List of Online Repositories there is no unrar.

[waterhead]

It looks like you are trying to install a package for RHEL 4 on your Suse install. That is not a good idea.

http://rpmforge.sw.be/redhat/el4/en/i386/rpmforge/RPMS/unrar-3.6.2-1.el4.rf.i386.rpm

[t28]

works, thanks!