Tuesday, May 27, 2008

How to use Rar files in ubuntu

I downloaded a rar file today, but was unable to open it as it wasn't being recognized under ubuntu.
There is a simple way to get rar up and running by typing in two commands in terminal.
Open up terminal and type the following in the command line.

sudo apt-get install rar
sudo ln -fs /usr/bin/rar /usr/bin/unrar

The sudo ln command hard links rar and unrar so that files will be able to link to the same file.
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