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Enable Opening of .rar Files from Ubuntu Archive Manager

Saliya Ekanayake 9:04 PM , , 2 comments
Download the (latest) rar http://files.rarlab.com/rar/rarlinux-3.6.0.tar.gz

Extract the content using tar -xvvzf rarlinux-3.6.0.tar.gz

Copy the file "rar" inside the extracted folder to "usr/bin"

That's it and now archive manager can open .rar files.

2 comments :

  1. shammi10:39 PM

    the later link location should be
    http://www.rarlab.com/rar/rarlinux-3.6.0.tar.gz

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  2. Rochak Agrawal12:03 AM

    works like a charm.. .thanks saliya..

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