how to install unrar

[Logan Kennelly]

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On Friday 19 July 2002 10:54 am, Scott Henderson wrote:
> I am installing something that requires unrar, a decompression
> utility.  I have downloaded various versions of this utility, but
> can't for the life of me get it installed.  Has anyone done this
> successfully?  I've gotten rpms, but running those seems to leave
> nothing installed on the machine.  I've also gotten tar.gzs that
> have no README, INSTALL, or Makefile so I don't know what to do
> with them.  Can anyone help?  Running RH 7.3 on 2xP200
> Compaq Proliant.  Thanks!!

I went to http://www.rarlab.com/ and downloaded "rarlinux-3.0.tar.gz".  
After unpacking ("tar xzf rarlinux-3.0.tar.gz"), I was left with a rar 
directory containing both the "rar" and "unrar" programs.  From there, I 
simply ran "~/tmp/rar/unrar x filename.rar" (where ~/tmp represents the 
location you unpacked rarlinux).

Note that since I rarly (get it???) unpack rar archives, I did not bother 
looking for RPMs or installing the program.  In this scenario, I could have 
installed the program by copying unrar to either my "/usr/local/bin" 
directory (for a system-wide install) or my "$HOME/bin" directory (for a 
local install).  Note that not all distributions include $HOME/bin in your 
path by default, so this may require one additional step.  Let us know.

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						Logan Kennelly
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