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Charles Bros
Asked: 2016-04-08 01:11:07 +0800 CST

I can not extract RAR file

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I can not extract RAR file, I tried many tutorials that I found on the internet but no one work. With right click, says it is not possible to finish extraction

with "unrar x", show this memsage

"Cannot open archive.rar No files to extract"

I transfer this file 2 times with USB drive, and before that I extracted it on another PC, so I think it is intact.

anyone know the solution?

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3 Answers

  1. You can install and use the utility p7zip (p7zip-full and p7zip-rar).

    p7zip is a file archiver that archives with very high compression ratios.

    p7zip-rar provides a module for p7zip-full to extract .rar files.

    To install the tool - open a terminal and execute these commands : 

    sudo apt-get update  

sudo apt-get install p7zip-full p7zip-rar

    Now you can extract .rar files from nautilus right-click menu.

    Additional information and a list of supported archive formats :

    • Unpacking RAR only if p7zip-rar package is installed.

    • Packing / Unpacking : 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2, XZ and TAR.

    • Unpacking only : APM, ARJ, CAB, CHM, CPIO, CramFS, DEB, DMG, FAT, HFS, ISO, LZH, LZMA, LZMA2, MBR, MSI, MSLZ, NSIS, NTFS, RAR, RPM, SquashFS, UDF, VHD, WIM, XAR and Z.

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  2. install an archive manager like 7zip

    for easy installation, I recommend getting synaptic which is GUI manager for your downloads

    From terminal:

    sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install synaptic

    from there, search for 7zip and mark for installation and then click apply. This will also make your future installations much easier if you're not accustomed to the command line like me.

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  3. The best and easy way to extract password protected rar files in ubuntu or other linux distros is to use the "Xachiver" which is also available in app store

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