How to install winrar on CentOS

Rar is one of the common file format use for data compression and archiving. What happen if you have a rar file in Linux ? Don’t panic, just using the ‘rar’ program .There is some intro in Unrar the File.

Today I had to install rar support to archive and split large files. I’ve tried to download an rar from rarlab site

wget http://www.rarlab.com/rar/rarlinux-3.9.b2.tar.gz

Extract it:
tar -xf rarlinux-3.8.0.tar.gz
cd rar

Copy rar & unrar files to /usr/bin:
cp rar unar /usr/bin Read more…