This page last modified: Feb 03 2010
keywords:rar,unrar,fedora,fedora 11, fedora 12,install,repo,rpmfusion description:Install unrar or other rar support packages on Fedora 11 or Fedora 12 (or any other Fedora distro) title:unrar and rar install via yum The .rar file format sucks because we do not need another archive format. Some people insist on using it and there is support under Fedora Linux. Nonetheless, I suggest that when someone gives you a .rar you strongly suggest that they go back to .zip or .tar in the future. We must all fight stupid, unnecessary file formats. Follow these steps. The rar utilities are in rpmfusion. Rpmfusion is basically a requirement for serious work with Fedora, so you'll want this repository in your yum list of repos. Due to the slow speed of yum for simple lookup of package names, I keep a text file with the output from "yum list all". su -l root rpm -ivh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm rpm -ivh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm yum list all > yum_list.txt grep unrar yum_list.txt yum install unrar