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Guest Chuck Yoghurt

Hi everybody

 

I think this is fairly rudmentary..

 

I want to install linux rar. I downloaded the tar.gz and extracted it and I now have these files;

 

default.sfx* Makefile rarfiles.lst readme.txt whatsnew.txt

file_id.diz order.htm rar_static* technote.txt

license.txt rar* rar.txt unrar*

 

Only trouble is - I don't know what to do with them.. :wall: Anyone help me please? (No help in readme)

 

Chuck

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Go into the directory you extracted the files (with konqueror), press F4 to open konsole, and type in

su

(provide root pass)

./Makefile

(Beware: case sensitive!)

 

Optionally, if you have a licence key, you can copy it to /etc to register rarlinux.

 

I guess you know rarlinux is CLI only (no gui) right?

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Why not save yourself all this drama when you can download an rpm called unrar. I think it is on PLFs website.

I use it often for music that is packaged in rar and it works like a dream.

 

Cheers. John

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Guest Chuck Yoghurt

Yep. Thanks for your replies everybody. :D I tried this........

 

[# chmod a+rwxs Makefile

# ./Makefile

 

and I got this......

 

./Makefile: line 8: install:: command not found

./Makefile: line 9: PREFIX: command not found

./Makefile: line 10: PREFIX: command not found

./Makefile: line 11: PREFIX: command not found

./Makefile: line 13: PREFIX: command not found

 

Can you tell me why that is? :unsure:

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Doh! my mistake, sorry for that.

Instead of "./Makefile" you should simply run "make install" as root.

The binaries will be installed at /usr/local/bin which may not be desirable for some distros (for Mandriva its normal)- if you want them installed somewhere else, change the "PREFIX=/usr/local" line.

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