Utility unrar is not in your path

[Ian Rastall]

This is the error message I get when I try to unrar a file with Ark.
I've gone into Synaptic and installed the free unrar utility, but I
still get the error. How exactly do I get unrar into my path? I don't
even know what my path is, except in a metaphysical sense, and I doubt
that's what this OS is talking about.

Ian
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[Chuck]

On Fri, 14 Apr 2006 03:35:31 +0000, Ian Rastall wrote:

> This is the error message I get when I try to unrar a file with Ark.
> I've gone into Synaptic and installed the free unrar utility, but I
> still get the error. How exactly do I get unrar into my path? I don't
> even know what my path is, except in a metaphysical sense, and I doubt
> that's what this OS is talking about.
>
> Ian
>

Got this off of [url]http://easylinux.info/wiki/Ubuntu[/url] which is a great Ubuntu
resource.

sudo apt-get install rar
sudo ln -fs /usr/bin/rar /usr/bin/unrar

Looks like you have to create a link to rar or else unrar does nothing.

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Chuck

[Florian Diesch]

Ian Rastall <idrastall@gmail.com> wrote:

> This is the error message I get when I try to unrar a file with
> Ark. I've gone into Synaptic and installed the free unrar utility, but
> I still get the error. How exactly do I get unrar into my path? I

The binary is called unrar-free
To get a unrar-Binary either install unrar-nonfree or make a symlink:
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/unrar-nonfree /usr/bin/unrar


dpkg -L <package> shows you the files in package <package>. This is often
useful if you don't know how a program is called



Florian
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