Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Extracting RAR Files in Fedora

I just downloaded compilation of enigma songs in the form of a RAR file. I wanted to extract the same. I guess i googled it and Yo! i got the tool

The tool is called unrar.

First add the Freshrpms repository (in case you hadn't) by clicking below...
http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/fedora/linux/9/freshrpms-release/freshrpms-release-1.1-1.fc.noarch.rpm

Next open the Terminal and type the following

yum -y install unrar

remember to become a superuser or a root user by typing the su command followed by the root password

Lo! and done. Just go to the directory which contains the RAR file and type the following command

unrar x [filename.rar]

A folder will be created with the files extracted. Type...
man unrar
... to learn what more can be done with this tool

Cheerio!
Shyam

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