cannot install unrar

as i understand the only war to open .rar files is to install something called unrar and this will allow xarchiver to open them.

but i cant seem to install unrar, i have tried "sudo yum install unrar"

but i just get the message -
No package unrar available.
Nothing to do

thanks lee

 

Unrar is not free software, so you won't find it in the Fedora repository. Check out rpmfind.net. It's got links to several versions.

 

ok many thanks i have now installed unrar but i still have a problem opening the rar file due to it having a password, i have the password but i believe i need to open the rar via a command line and as i am brand new to linux i am unsure how to do this!

many thanks lee

 

Open a terminal (Alt-F2) and type (without quotes) "rar --help" then hit the enter key.