How to open winrar files with Linux
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To open RAR (those created with winrar) you will need unrar. There are lots of sites now providing files packaged under the rar format.
So you will need first to install unrar on your systems and therefore be able to list content and unpack the files into your hard disk to be able to work with them.
Installation of the needed program
Debian / Ubuntu
apt-get install unrar
Fedora / Centos
Be sure to have rpmforge repository enabled on CentOS
yum install unrar
Using the program
To read the contents of the file.
unrar l [file.rar]
Example
$ unrar l Manual_Sistema.rar
UNRAR 3.70 beta 3 freeware Copyright (c) 1993-2007 Alexander Roshal
Archive Manual_Sistema.rar
Name Size Packed Ratio Date Time Attr CRC Meth Ver
ManualSistema.pdf 4590335 2938370 64% 21-04-07 10:23 .....A. FB0D139E m3g 2.9
1 4590335 2938370 64%
To extract the content of the file
unrar e [file.rar]
Example
$ unrar e Manual_Sistema.rar
UNRAR 3.70 beta 3 freeware Copyright (c) 1993-2007 Alexander Roshal
Extracting from Manual_Sistema.rar
Extracting ManualSistema.pdf OK All OK
You may want to read Unrar man page