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Failed to locate program 'rar' in PATH

Asked by mathojojo

I got this error : Failed to locate program 'rar' in PATH, when trying to open a rar file. (unrar-nonfree is installed, and works well in command line)

Jaunty 9.04 and KDE 4.3 beta2 from ppa depositories.

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This question was originally filed as bug #389213.

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Brian Murray (brian-murray) said : 		#1

Thank you for taking the time to report this issue and helping to make Ubuntu better. Examining the information you have given us, this does not appear to be a bug report so we are closing it and converting it to a question in the support tracker. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but it would make more sense to raise problems you are having in the support tracker at https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu if you are uncertain if they are bugs. For help on reporting bugs, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs#When%20not%20to%20file%20a%20bug.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#2

sudo apt-get install rar unrar

You can now use:

unrar x file.rar in terminal

Ark will also gain the knowledge of rar files and be able to extract them ok.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

oops, its:

rar x file.rar

in terminal

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Pedro F Loveras (pedroflovera) said : 		#4

Woooao
This finaly fix my problem in Kubuntu 12.04.

My problem was every time i try to unrar any file i geting:

Failed to locate program 'rar' in PATH
And i have install rar on my system.

So i try what Andrew say:

sudo apt-get install rar unrar

And now is working...
Thanks

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#5

I suggest you run

sudo apt-get install p7zip p7zip-full p7zip-rar unp

Too, then just use unp to extract everything in CLI, it looks at the data and uses the correct extract command for you. Waaay easier..

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