[CentOS] Unrar not extracting archive

Wed Jan 24 14:31:30 UTC 2018
H <agents at meddatainc.com>

On 01/23/2018 08:50 PM, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> Am 23.01.2018 um 20:23 schrieb H:
>> I received a rar-archive, probably created on Win10, that I could not extract with unrar on CentOS 6.
>
> CentOS does not provide unrar. You must have it from a third party repository and we don't know which version of unrar that is.
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> Alexander
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You are right, it seems I had installed version 4.0.7 from repoforge. I now removed it, installed version 5.2.1 locally from rarlab.com and this version is able to extract the archived files.