i some how installed a rar binary which is working in my old system now i can not back track how i installed it.i want that to install in my Debian wheezy desktop as i am receving many rar files. and unrar is not good enough for me.
by the way just sharing that old version having rar is Squeeze and i am using new version on desktop which is debian 7.
~# dpkg -s rar
Package: rar
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: non-free/utils
Installed-Size: 1156
Maintainer: Martin Meredith <
mez@debian.org>
Architecture: amd64
Version: 2:3.9.3-1
Suggests: unrar
Conffiles:
/etc/rarfiles.lst f7f45aed82c9b18337389cf453289c92
Description: Archiver for .rar files
This is the RAR archiver from Eugene Roshal. It supports multiple volume
archives and damage protection. It can also create SFX-archives. There are
versions which run on DOS, Windows (3.1x,95,NT), FreeBSD, BSDI.
~# apt-cache policy rar
rar:
Installed: 2:3.9.3-1
Candidate: 2:3.9.3-1
Version table:
*** 2:3.9.3-1 0
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status