Being able to easily deal with rar archives is a part of everyday life for many users, it helps cut down on transfer times when importing and exporting files from your machine over the internet or to USB media, and it’s a great way to secure files too.

Installing rar and unrar under Ubuntu 18.04 LTS is trivial and should take you less than 30 seconds, so let’s dive right in.

Unrar is compatible mostly for Linux distributions where you can easily install the package from the command terminal using the apt programs. Open Command Terminal and type the following command (s) if you’re using Ubuntu or Debian based distros: $ sudo apt-get install unrar.
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Here’s how to install rar and unrar under Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial):

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Ubuntu Multiverse amd64 Official: unrar5.6.6-2build1amd64.deb: Unarchiver for.rar files (non-free version) Ubuntu Multiverse arm64 Official: unrar5.6.6-2build1arm64.deb: Unarchiver for.rar files (non-free.

As unrar is included in Ubuntu’s default repositories, you should see output along the lines of the following:

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That’s it!

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How To: Install unrar in Linux

The unrar program, which serves to open and extract popular .rar archives, is often available for install from repositories of a given Linux distribution. That should make installing it easy by using your distribution’s package management system. That can be either a graphical user interface program like Ubuntu Software Center, or a command like tool like apt-get.

Some distributions may, however, require you to enable or add an additional repository to those included by default, which is usually the one containing various proprietary packages. This is because unrar, with the exception of the unrar-free package (which doesn’t support all .rar files), is proprietary software. It’s not open source. Some distributions avoid including non-free or non open source software by default, because they want to encourage using only Free Open Source Software, either for philosophical or practical reasons.

With that said, here is how to install unrar in the few most popular Linux distributions.

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This also covers all of the Ubuntu variants like Xubuntu, Kubuntu, and Lubuntu. I know, those names are kinda hilarious when you string them together like that! But on to the install:

Install unrar in Debian

Debian is the grandaddy of Ubuntu, but it follows a quite different philosophy, and so does not enable the non-free repository by default. To enable it run (or copy-paste) the following command:

If by the time you read this you’re running a newer version than Debian 7 (codenamed “wheezy”), just replace “wheezy” above with the new codename.

After adding the repository you should update the package database to make new packages available for install:

And then you can install the same way you would in Ubuntu:

Install unrar in Fedora

In Fedora you need to add a RPM Fusion Non-Free repository before you can install unrar. Not to worry, this is pretty easy. Just follow the simple instructions provided at RPMFusion.org.It involves downloading and launching a couple of files, and following prompts on the screen. Command line set up options are also shown.

Once you have it you can simply run the following command to install:

Speaking of Fedora it may be worth mentioning that Korora, a Fedora-based distribution, enables this repository by default so if you use Korora all you need to do is run the above yum command.

Install unrar in openSUSE

sudo zypper install unrarThat should be it for openSUSE since the “non-oss” (non open source) repository, which contains unrar, is added and enabled by default.

Install unrar in Arch Linux

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Same story as openSUSE.

Other

If you’re running any other Linux distribution chances are it is a derivative of any of the above or otherwise contains unrar in its official repositories. As a last resort option, which you probably wont need, you can download unrar directly from the RarLabs web site.

The RAR for Linux package, available for download there, contains both unrar and rar binaries as well as the makefile that allows you to easily install them. Just extract the package to any directory, then in the command line change the directory you are in to the extracted directory, and run the make command as a superuser.

In other words:

The make command will copy the binaries to locations where Linux is looking for binaries, so you can run the rar and unrar commands as normal.

Don’t do this, however, unless you really have to. Chances are your distro has unrar packaged up already and available for install. You can also check for that at pkgs.org (if your distro is listed).

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