Handlihng a .rar file

[M A Young]

On Sat, 19 Jul 2008, Anne Wilson wrote:

> I've been sent a .rar file that I need to open.  Neither ark nor
> archive-manager will open it, even if I rename it to .zip.  Does anyone know
> a package that can handle this, or must I ask for it to be sent differently?

I don't think Fedora supports rar because of licensing/patent issues, but 
you can get packages from other repositories, for example 
http://freshrpms.net/ has an unrar package available.

 	Michael Young