How To Install unar on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install unar
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is unar
unar is:
The Unarchiver is an archive unpacker program with support for the popular zip, RAR, 7z, tar, gzip, bzip2, LZMA, XZ, CAB, MSI, NSIS, EXE, ISO, BIN, and split file formats, as well as the old Stuffit, Stuffit X, DiskDouble, Compact Pro, Packit, cpio, compress (.Z), ARJ, ARC, PAK, ACE, ZOO, LZH, ADF, DMS, LZX, PowerPacker, LBR, Squeeze, Crunch, and other old formats.
This package contains the lsar tool which lists the contents of archives and the unar tool which extracts those contents.
There are three methods to install unar
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install unar Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install unar
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install unar
Install unar Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install unar
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install unar
Install unar Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install unar
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install unar
How To Uninstall unar on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the unar
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove unar
Uninstall unar And Its Dependencies
To uninstall unar
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove unar
Remove unar Configurations and Data
To remove unar
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge unar
Remove unar configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove unar
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge unar
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install unar
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.