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guriinii

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From: Rossendale

Registered: 2010-09-22

Posts: 84

[SOLVED] I can't get rar to work.

Hi all,

I've installed rar and followed the wiki and I still can't extract. I just get "bash: rar: command not found"

Can anyone provide any assistance?

Last edited by guriinii (2010-09-24 11:47:13)

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karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: [SOLVED] I can't get rar to work.

How exactly did you install rar?
'unrar' package provides a means of extracting rar archives, but it's not the same as the 'rar' package (which enables you to both create and extract rar archives). The former is available in the official repos, the latter isn't.

You can add

[archstuff]
# AUR's most voted packages
Server = http://archstuff.vs169092.vserver.de/i686

to your pacman.conf, run 'pacman -Syy' and 'pacman -S rar' to install 'rar' package.

Alternatively, you can call unrar instead of rar in the extract script.
If it still doesn't work, post again.

Last edited by karol (2010-09-24 11:25:43)

guriinii

Member

From: Rossendale

Registered: 2010-09-22

Posts: 84

Re: [SOLVED] I can't get rar to work.

I installed unrar instead of rar and tried using "rar" command. woops.

Thank you.

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