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RAR (package)

RAR is a package available for many Linux distributions that handles .rar archives of the RAR algorithm.

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.

unrar e <path to .rar file>