How To Install unar on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install unar on Fedora 34.
What is unar
The command-line utilities lsar and unar are capable of listing and extracting files respectively in several formats including RARv5, RAR support includes encryption and multiple volumes, unar can serve as a free and open source replacement of unrar.
We can use yum or dnf to install unar on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install unar.
Install unar on Fedora 34 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install unar using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install unar
Install unar on Fedora 34 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install unar using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install unar
How To Uninstall unar on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the unar package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove unar
unar Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/lsar
/usr/bin/unar
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/df
/usr/lib/.build-id/df/56ce587d85c8aa6e4d48c8d8d0cb6884f3c3ba
/usr/lib/.build-id/e4
/usr/lib/.build-id/e4/0a9f59d1abbd9870749053a9cb92c292fed54f
/usr/share/bash-completion
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/lsar
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/unar
/usr/share/licenses/unar
/usr/share/licenses/unar/License.txt
/usr/share/man/man1/lsar.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/unar.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install unar on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.
