How to open winrar files with Linux

Introduction

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 unrar on Debian / Ubuntu

apt-get install unrar

Installation unrar on Fedora / Centos

Be sure to have rpmforge repository enabled on CentOS
yum install unrar

Using unrar

To read the contents of the file.
unrar l [filename.rar]
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