Wednesday, February 11, 2015

HowTo Install WinRAR in Fedora 18

Step1:
download RAR 4.20 for Linux x64
or you may get this at http://www.rarlab.com/download.htm

Step2:
open your file browser and go to your Downloads folder
extract rarlinux-x64-4.2.0.tar.gz
this will create a rar folder

Step3:
open a terminal and type
su -
cd /home/**username**/Downloads/rar
make
make install


How To Use:
Nautilus File Browser
a) you can now start un-rar-ing things by right clicking on them and press on extract**

Terminal
a) to extract files to the directory you are currently at
unrar e file.rar

b) to extract files to the Desktop
unrar e file.rar /home/user/Desktop

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