[CentOS] extract *.rar files

William L. Maltby BillsCentOS at triad.rr.com
Sat Jul 15 07:54:40 UTC 2006


On Sat, 2006-07-15 at 10:58 +0800, Mark Quitoriano wrote:
> i can't find it at apt repo. is it on centosplus?
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> On 7/15/06, Mike Kercher <mike at vesol.com> wrote:
>         unrar
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I know it's too late now, but if you do have yum installed with the
repos defined in /etc/repos.d, this gave me an answer in just a few
minutes: faster than even the great response (often) from this list.

    # Disable protect plugins, ensure all repos listed
    # yum --noplugins --enablerepo=\* provides unrar
    # Edit boring stuff out of this reply

    unrar.i386 ... 3.5.4-1.2.el4.rf       dries

>     What program should i use to extract rar files on linux?

Keep in mind that dag/dries *normally* prefer that rpmforge be used. But
the query stll shows dag/dries. But I have them disabled and rpmforge
active. WFM so far.

Does apt have the ability to look at CentOS "places" (I 'm apt to know
zip about apt:-)? Does it have a "provides" or "whatprovides"
equivalent? ISTM that taking advantage of those features would be faster
than waiting on somebody's good-nature response at their leisure?

Or, because I'm often very impatient and lazy, I keep several quite up-
to-date listings from all the repos in /var. So

   # grep unrar /var/YumAvail.lst.07
   unrar.i386                               3.6.2-1.el4.rf         dag
   unrar-debuginfo.i386                     3.5.4-1.2.el4.rf       dries
   #

"LAZINESS is the mother of invention", contrary to the old adage!
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Don't pitch a fit, it'd be a waste of time!  :-)

-- 
Bill
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