Extract ".rar" file -

[Max Pyziur]

On Tue, 16 Apr 2013, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote:

>
> 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?

*.rar archives require their own programs to manage them:
the rar that i use is from the atrpms repo
whil unrar  is from the rpmfusion-nonfree-updates  repo

Install via yum and then do unrar --help to find out the necessary 
options/switches.


> Bob
>
>

Max Pyziur
pyz at brama.com