Guest Chuck Yoghurt Posted May 26, 2007 Report Share Posted May 26, 2007 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.. Anyone help me please? (No help in readme) Chuck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted May 26, 2007 Report Share Posted May 26, 2007 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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AussieJohn Posted May 27, 2007 Report Share Posted May 27, 2007 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jagwah Posted May 27, 2007 Report Share Posted May 27, 2007 Or just set up the repo's for PLF (or whatever), and just select it via MCC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Chuck Yoghurt Posted May 27, 2007 Report Share Posted May 27, 2007 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: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patkos Csaba Posted May 27, 2007 Report Share Posted May 27, 2007 If you open Makefile you can see this: PREFIX=/usr/local install: mkdir -p $(PREFIX)/bin mkdir -p $(PREFIX)/lib cp rar unrar $(PREFIX)/bin cp rarfiles.lst /etc cp default.sfx $(PREFIX)/lib Just copy by hend the files specified there (last 3 lines). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Chuck Yoghurt Posted May 27, 2007 Report Share Posted May 27, 2007 Lovely thank you very much! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted May 27, 2007 Report Share Posted May 27, 2007 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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