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How to open .rar file in Ubuntu? Parag Shah

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I have received in one attachment seven documents in one email as .rar file. Can some one help how to open them in Ubuntu?

Best wishes,

Parag Shah

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Best Abel Deuring (adeuring) said : 		#1

You can install the package "unrar" or "unrar-free", giving you a command line tool to unpack RAR archives. I have never tried it, but the graphical file browsers from Gnome and KDE may even be able to open RAR archives with the help of these packages. But other people may know more.

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Shyam (shyam.s) said : 		#2

As Abel was saying you need to install "unrar" package.

sudo apt-get install unrar

 Once you have installed this package your archive-manager supports rar packages

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Parag (officeindia) said : 		#3

Thank you Abel and Shyam for helping me in the matter. Installed unrar and got the problem solved from Achieve Manager solved. Could open them

Best wishes,

Parag Shah

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Parag (officeindia) said : 		#4

Thanks Abel Deuring, that solved my question.

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akhanna222 (akhanna222) said : 		#5

i tried to type the code you have given in terminal sudo apt-get install unrar
but after that it asked for my password which i cannot type
it shows
[sudo] password for abhishek:
after this i cannot type anything please help

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Jeruvy (jeruvy) said : 		#6

Akhanna222

Please note this question is marked solved. Please ask your own question.

(Just enter your password anyways and hit enter...)

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michael (mishlesh85) said : 		#7

E: Package 'unrar' has no installation candidate
root@mike-ThinkPad-X61:/home/mike# sudo apt-get install rar
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package rar is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Package 'rar' has no installation candidate
root@mike-ThinkPad-X61:/home/mike#