Re: RAR under linux: any alternative?
On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 11:35:35PM -0300, Gabriel wrote:
> yeah, I know that, but I was talking about a program to decompress RAR
> files... I know I don't really need it, but today a friend sent me a rar
> file and I needed to tell him to recompress it as zip and send it
> again... (of course that the first thing he did was talk about the
> dis-advantages of using GNU/Linux...)
> So I want it so the next time it happens I won't give anyone the chance to
> defame GNU =P
You can use the 'apt-cache' command to search for programs by
keywords. For example running:
apt-cache search rar unrar
Gives you this in the output:
unrar-free - Unarchiver for .rar files
unrar - Unarchiver for .rar files (non-free version)
Install it as usual:
apt-get install unrar-free
Then use it with:
unrar-free x file.rar (From memory, I haven't used it for a while).
You can also search for packages on the Debian website at:
http://packages.debian.org/
Steve
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