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You can install unrar - "Unarchiver for .rar files" or unp - "unpack (almost) everything with one command"

To unrar a file:

• unrar x <myfile>

To unp a file:

• unp <myfile.rar>

Since unrar is not open source, some distros might not have it in their package manager already. If it's not, try unrar-free.

Notice that unrar x <myfile> will preserve directory structure in archive, in difference with unrar e <myfile> which will flatten it

You can use unar. This is not related to the non-free unrar, it's free software.

You can get unar from fedora repo, it's open and licence-pure:

dnf install unar
unar file.rar

sudo apt-get install p7zip
7zr x myfile.rar

On Windows I rely on 7zip for rar and every other archive file, and it works on Linux, too.

Hope that helps.

Note that unrar is not open source (the license to the available source forbids using it to reverse engineer the compression, which violates point 6 "No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor" of the Open Source Definition), and thus will not be shipped by Fedora.

Go to Rar Labs, check out the source for unrar (be careful, the version might have changed!), build and install (you'll need g++ and make), preferably for your account only:

$ tar zxf unrarsrc-5.3.11.tar.gz
$ cd unrar
$ make DESTDIR=$HOME all
$ make DESTDIR=$HOME install-unrar

Add $HOME/bin to your PATH, and you are all set.

Yes, there is a RPM offered. I would't touch it with the proverbial 10 feet pole, more often than not third parties have no clue on how to create a correct RPM (it isn't exactly rocket science, but there are lots of details that have to be just right, see e.g. Fedora's guidelines). Besides, there are differences between Fedora versions, "one size fits all" can't cut it.

I'd suggest using a nearest available file manager, either Norton-like (Midnight Commander, Double Commander, Tux Commander, etc., whatever is present in your distribution) or window-based (as Dolphin). Most of them have enough intelligence to open all kinds of archives in a manner suitable for manual contents exploring, but, sometimes, they use external tools. For instance, my Kubuntu suggests Ark in such cases. They would need an external tool, as unrar, for accessing proprietary archive formats; if so, install the latter using a package manager.

If you want to extract the entire archive or a single specified file, unrar e extracts without full path, and unrar x also makes intermediate directories.

Install the unrar package. On Fedora, for eample, you can do so with:

sudo yum install unrar

Then, use it to extract the files:

unrar e filename.rar

On Ubuntu, you have a GUI solution, Archive Manager. It provides extraction of such archive files as .rar files.