UnRar-6.0.7

Introduction to UnRar

The UnRar package contains a RAR extraction utility used for extracting files from RAR archives. RAR archives are usually created with WinRAR, primarily in a Windows environment.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-11.0 platform.

Package Information

Download (HTTP): https://www.rarlab.com/rar/unrarsrc-6.0.7.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: de5017a63a610cb82dba7d33bd826fb6
Download size: 228 KB
Estimated disk space required: 2.5 MB
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU

User Notes: https://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/unrar

Installation of UnRar

Note

This package extracts the tarball to the unversioned directory unrar and not the expected directory unrar-6.0.7.

Install UnRar by running the following commands:

make -f makefile

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

install -v -m755 unrar /usr/bin

Installed Program: unrar

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: None

Short Descriptions

unrar

uncompresses a RAR archive

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