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RAR (Roshal ARchive) is a proprietary lossless compression format with the default file extension .rar.

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"Parsing filters unsupported" error during extraction of RAR file

I have received an .rar which I wish to unpack as it contains something rather important to me that I need to really have now. However even though I can view the contents of the .rar archive in the Archive Manager, I am unable to extract it due to…
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What's the easiest way to unrar a file?

I just realized I can't unrar .rar files on my Ubuntu machine! What's the easiest way to accomplish this fundamental task? If possible I'd love something like 7Zip that I can just right Click, and extract and have the program worry about how to do…
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What's the easiest way to unrar a file on Ubuntu 12.04

I just realized I can't unrar .rar files on my Ubuntu machine!
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Combining .rar extraction

I've recently downloaded 7 .rar files which needs to get extracted and to output only one file. How do I to make them extract only one output and to do not extract 7 files, please? Thanks in advance!
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Rar file extract is failed

I'm trying to extract a rar file is first time is opened then its closed and to reopen the file is failed." an error occured while loading the archive manager" this alert message displayed
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How can I unlock a password locked rar file without knowing the password?

I have .rar file that is password protected, but I accidentally have forgotten the password. The file extremely important to me. How can I get my file back? In windows, there was many programs that could remove the password of such a file. Is there…
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How do I get 'rar' package?

I recently installed another Ubuntu after a long time and I'm trying to install rar package on it as I use that for compression from within Terminal. rar isn't found when I do apt-get install rar I have even tried doing apt-get update but even…
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unrar folder with password (terminal)

i'm using this command to unrar folders: for file in *.part01.rar; do unrar x ${file}; done; but i don't know where to add the password in this command. because right now, this command wants the password for every archive in that folder. thanks
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how to extract a rar file with multiple parts?

How should I extract a file which has more than one rar file that should be extracted with each other?
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Extract a rar file with a password that contains special characters

How can I extract a rar file with a password that contains special characters like ', ", `, /, \, ^, (space), !, ?, {, }, [, ], $, &, %, *, ~, :, ,, <, >, etc. Here is an example of PASSWORD…
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Failing to unrar files

I'm sorry to ask this, but all of the questions along similar lines I could find have been answered by installing unrar/7zip. So, I received a book in the form of a .rar archive of jpegs. Initially, I tried to uncompress with 7zip from terminal. …
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I can not extract RAR file

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…
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Create RAR archive in 17.10

I used to be able to create a rar archive from a file or folder by just right-clicking on the file (in Nautilus) and choosing "Compress...". I had the option to choose the rar format, which I like because I can create password-protected…
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Why is terminal telling me that my .rar file is not a RAR archive?

The file was downloaded online am I am trying to get a PS2 emulator working on my computer for fun. All I need to do now is learn how to open this rar file. File output of: superpajamarama@:~$ file "/home/superpajamarama/Desktop/PS2…
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what rar password recovery tools are available?

Long ago I made an archive of images and protected it with a password but I have forgotten the password and I made many trails to crack it with my general combinations but failed. Are there any reliable solutions?
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