how to unrar .rar files

  • Hi,
    i tried in several way but no way to unrar file.
    installed unrar-free and p7zip but anways fails. has anyone a solution for it?
    Thanks in advance

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    • Official Post

    unrar-free is ancient (from 2014). Try installing just unrar

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  • i tried it too...sorry forgot to mention....but same result...
    i use unrar -x archive but got fail message for all files:
    Extracting file_name Failed
    any idea?

    OMV 5.5.20-1(Usul); OMVExtrasorg 5.4.2;

    Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster):kernel Linux 5.9.0-0.bpo.2-amd64 x64 on a ASUS M4A88T-M-USB3 installed on a 128G 2,5" SSD disk, 8 GB RAM,CPU AMD Phenom II X6 1055T; Clonezilla as backup method.

    RAID mirror with two WDC WD20EARS 1TB for personal data.

    • Official Post

    You are on OMV 3.x (Debian 8). Upgrading to OMV 4.x (Debian 9) would get you a newer version of unrar. Are you sure the rar file is not corrupt?

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  • yes...unrarred with 7zip on windows.
    need to move on OMV 4x?

    OMV 5.5.20-1(Usul); OMVExtrasorg 5.4.2;

    Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster):kernel Linux 5.9.0-0.bpo.2-amd64 x64 on a ASUS M4A88T-M-USB3 installed on a 128G 2,5" SSD disk, 8 GB RAM,CPU AMD Phenom II X6 1055T; Clonezilla as backup method.

    RAID mirror with two WDC WD20EARS 1TB for personal data.

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    need to move on OMV 4x?

    While I think you should do that regardless of the unrar issue, that will take you from unrar 5.2.7 to 5.3.2. If that still doesn't work, you *might* be able to install unrar 5.6.6 from Debian 10.

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  • Just for the sake of completion: Just download the newest Winrar.de for Linux and install it with the few steps below:


    A package is to much for just a few files.

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