unrar command not found in linux

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I have attached the screen shot of the error:

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Hi,

Above error shows that you don't have unrar util installed on your Linux box. You can run following command to install the free version of unrar util:

sudo apt install unrar-free

The above command will install the unrar util on your Ubuntu box and after that you can use the unrar tool to extract the content of a rar file.

Here is the screen shot of installation process on Ubuntu 18.04 box:

Some of the output of the installation process:

deepak@deepak-VirtualBox:~/examples$ sudo apt install unrar-free
[sudo] password for deepak: 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  efibootmgr libfwup1 libwayland-egl1-mesa
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following additional packages will be installed:
  gnustep-base-common gnustep-base-runtime gnustep-common
  libgnustep-base1.25 libobjc4 unar
Suggested packages:
  gnustep-base-doc pike8.0 | pike7.8 | pike7.6 | pike
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  gnustep-base-common gnustep-base-runtime gnustep-common
  libgnustep-base1.25 libobjc4 unar unrar-free
0 upgraded, 7 newly installed, 0 to remove and 20 not upgraded.
Need to get 2,995 kB of archives.
After this operation, 14.3 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y

Once the installation is successful you use the unrar command.

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Hi,

After installing you will be able to unrar a file with following command:

unrar myfile.rar.

Here is sample output:

deepak@deepak-VirtualBox:~/Desktop/test$ unrar one.rar

unrar 0.0.1  Copyright (C) 2004  Ben Asselstine, Jeroen Dekkers


Extracting from /home/deepak/Desktop/test/one.rar

Extracting  one.txt                                                   OK        
All OK
deepak@deepak-VirtualBox:~/Desktop/test$

So, now you can use the unrar command to extract the content of a rar file on Linux box.

Here is the screenshot of the above example program:

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Hi,

You can check more tutorials at:

• Linux Tutorials section.

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