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Installing unrar in CentOS

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You can download unrar (WinRAR) from

http://www.rarlab.com/download.htm

For CentOS 6.x 64 Bit, i downloaded latest RAR 5.21 for Linux x64 Command line only.

cd /usr/local/src
wget http://www.rarlab.com/rar/rarlinux-x64-5.2.1.tar.gz
tar zxvf rarlinux-x64-5.2.1.tar.gz
cp rar/unrar /usr/local/bin

Now you will be able to use unrar command. They also have rar binary, but on Linux, lets not use rar, just use tar instead.

How to extract a rar file

To extract a compressed rar file, run

unrar x FILE_NAME.rar

Install unrar on Ubuntu

unrar can be installed with apt-get on ubuntu.

apt-get install unrar-free

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