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Installing unrar package under Debian Linux

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What we need to do is install this package (at least for Debian 4.0 Etch. You may find for your appropriate version here). Since it belongs to Debian’s non-free section you need to make sure you have non-free enabled on your apt sources.

You may test that everything will be smooth by invoking the install command with the “simulate” switch (-s):

apt-get update
apt-get -s install unrar

Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  unrar
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 82 not upgraded.
Inst unrar (1:3.5.2-0.1 Debian:3.1r7/oldstable)
Conf unrar (1:3.5.2-0.1 Debian:3.1r7/oldstable)

It actually looks OK; there are no dependency problems and the upgrade is minimal (this package does not require to install many others). I then proceed with the “real” thing:

apt-get install unrar

Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  unrar
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 82 not upgraded.
Need to get 87.9kB of archives.
After unpacking 221kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au oldstable/non-free unrar 1:3.5.2-0.1 [87.9kB]
Fetched 87.9kB in 1s (53.2kB/s)
Selecting previously deselected package unrar.
(Reading database ... 47406 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking unrar (from .../unrar_1%3a3.5.2-0.1_i386.deb) ...
Setting up unrar (3.5.2-0.1) ...

Unrar command line usage under Debian Linux

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The command usage is:

Usage:     unrar  - -  
                


  e             Extract files to current directory
  l[t,b]        List archive [technical, bare]
  p             Print file to stdout
  t             Test archive files
  v[t,b]        Verbosely list archive [technical,bare]
  x             Extract files with full path


  -             Stop switches scanning
  ad            Append archive name to destination path
  ap      Set path inside archive
  av-           Disable authenticity verification check
  c-            Disable comments show
  cfg-          Disable read configuration
  cl            Convert names to lower case
  cu            Convert names to upper case
  dh            Open shared files
  ep            Exclude paths from names
  ep3           Expand paths to full including the drive letter
  f             Freshen files
  id[c,d,p,q]   Disable messages
  ierr          Send all messages to stderr
  inul          Disable all messages
  kb            Keep broken extracted files
  n       Include only specified file
  n@            Read file names to include from stdin
  n@      Include files in specified list file
  o+            Overwrite existing files
  o-            Do not overwrite existing files
  ow            Save or restore file owner and group
  p[password]   Set password
  p-            Do not query password
  r             Recurse subdirectories
  ta      Process files modified after  in YYYYMMDDHHMMSS format
  tb      Process files modified before  in YYYYMMDDHHMMSS format
  tn      Process files newer than 
  to      Process files older than 
  ts[N]  Save or restore file time (modification, creation, access)
  u             Update files
  v             List all volumes
  ver[n]        File version control
  vp            Pause before each volume
  x       Exclude specified file
  x@            Read file names to exclude from stdin
  x@      Exclude files in specified list file
  y             Assume Yes on all queries

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