# RAR (package)

RAR is a package available for many Linux distributions that handles `.rar`
archives of the [RAR algorithm](/wiki/rar_(algorithm).md).

## Setup

On most distributions the functionalities for creating a `.rar` archive is
bundled in the `rar` package.
For extraction a separate package is used called `unrar`.

## Usage

### Extracting a `.rar` archive

A `.rar` archive can be extracted using the `unrar` package with the following
command.

```sh
unrar e <path to .rar file>
```