7-Zip on Ubuntu (RAR files)

paswrd

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Apr 18, 2017
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I had to search all over the internet for an answer to this basic header issue with Ubuntu and RAR compressed files. This seemed to fix my issues and give me the correct prerequisites needed to extract properly.

sudo apt install p7zip-full

Next you need to install 7zips RAR functions

sudo apt-get install p7zip-rar

Now you should be able to select the rar files path and destination of install using

7z x RARFILEPATH -o/path/of/destination

Note that there is no space between -o and the destination path.