Extract ".rar" file -

[Andras Simon]

2013/4/16, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA <bobgoodwin at wildblue.net>:
>
> How do I extract "tomato-E3000USB-1.28.9054MIPSR2-beta-Ext.rar" ?
>
> The instructions said to "yum install p7zip" and I did that, but finding
> the command to make it happen eludes me.
>
> I've found a lot of things that don't work e.g.
>
> [root at box10 Downloads]# 7za e
> "tomato-E3000USB-1.28.9054MIPSR2-beta-Ext.rar"
>
> 7-Zip (A) [64] 9.20  Copyright (c) 1999-2010 Igor Pavlov  2010-11-18
> p7zip Version 9.20 (locale=en_GB.UTF-8,Utf16=on,HugeFiles=on,4 CPUs)
>
> Processing archive: tomato-E3000USB-1.28.9054MIPSR2-beta-Ext.rar
>
> Error: Can not open file as archive
>
> Can someone tell me how to do this?
>
> Bob

I don't know about p7zip. But:

$ rpm -qi unrar
Name        : unrar
Version     : 4.2.3
Release     : 1.fc17
Architecture: i686
Install Date: Wed 27 Jun 2012 12:10:48 AM CEST
Group       : Applications/Archiving
Size        : 229684
License     : Freeware with further limitations
Signature   : RSA/SHA256, Wed 06 Jun 2012 08:31:52 AM CEST, Key ID
0dd634bdd2382b83
Source RPM  : unrar-4.2.3-1.fc17.src.rpm
Build Date  : Sun 03 Jun 2012 11:46:11 PM CEST
Build Host  : builder1.ovh.rpmfusion.lan
Relocations : (not relocatable)
Packager    : <http://nonfree.rpmfusion.org/>
Vendor      : RPM Fusion
URL         : http://www.rarlab.com/rar_add.htm
Summary     : Utility for extracting, testing and viewing RAR archives
Description :
The unrar utility is a freeware program for extracting, testing and
viewing the contents of archives created with the RAR archiver version
1.50 and above.


If you install it, you can use

unrar x tomato-E3000USB-1.28.9054MIPSR2-beta-Ext.rar

for extraction; replace 'x' with 'l' for listing the contents.

Andras