Acer Aspire One [Linpus Lite] - How to open rar files?

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My sister has some .rar files she would like to open on her netbook (Same as mine, but i’m running ubuntu atm), But the built in Xarchiver cannot open it. I’ve looked online and cannot find a single site which has any information on this. So i’ve come to seek the help of the allmighty Mark Greaves and his wonderful forum on how to open .rar files. Thanks in advance 8)

Heres the screenshot for the error recieved:

http://moooo.org/img/0/ec34d01.png

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So i've come to seek the help of the allmighty Mark Greaves and his wonderful forum on how to open .rar files.

Heh … Not “my” site, that would be the almighty Mad Penguin ;D

These instructions are for Linpus Lite … NOT Ubuntu :slight_smile:

If you open a terminal … what happens if you run:

sudo yum install unrar

You can open a terminal by hitting Alt+F2 then in the resulting dialog box enter terminal and hit enter.

Can Xarchiver now unpack RAR files ?

if you get a warning … “No package unrar available. Nothing to do” … try the instructions below.

Back in the terminal run these 3 commands:

cd ~

then

wget http://dl.dropbox.com/u/11876059/unrar-3.4.3-1.0.rh8.dag.i386.rpm

then

sudo rpm -ivh unrar-3.4.3-1.0.rh8.dag.i386.rpm

Can Xarchiver now unpack RAR files ?

Let me know how it goes as I’m currently running PppermintOS … any problems and I’ll reinstall Linpus and work it out :wink:

And just in case you need instructions for Ubuntu …

Open a terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run:

sudo apt-get install rar unrar
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Thanks very much, your a life saver!

The second bunch of commands worked thank you :slight_smile:

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You’re welcome … and thanks for letting me know :slight_smile: