Opening .rar files

[Michael Wiktowy]

On 10/23/07, Matthew Saltzman <mjs at clemson.edu> wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 03:44 +0200, Claus Reheis wrote:
> > Hi Tony!
> >
> > I think you are looking for a package named unrar.
>
> Available from Livna, and possibly other repos as well.
>

Once you install it, the archive manager will magically know how to
unrar stuff. You don't need to use the command line. Just double-click
any of the rar-file chunks in the nautilus file manager and extract
the contents.

I honestly don't know why rar is so popular.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_archivers

/Mike