How To Install unrar-free on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install unrar-free on Kali Linux.

What is unrar-free

unrar-free is:

Unrar can extract files from .rar archives. Can’t handle some archives in the RAR 3.0 format natively. Package “unar” can be used to extract those archives if installed.

There are three methods to install unrar-free on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install unrar-free Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install unrar-free using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install unrar-free

Install unrar-free Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install unrar-free using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install unrar-free

Install unrar-free Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install unrar-free using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install unrar-free

How To Uninstall unrar-free on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the unrar-free package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove unrar-free

Uninstall unrar-free And Its Dependencies

To uninstall unrar-free and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove unrar-free

Remove unrar-free Configurations and Data

To remove unrar-free configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge unrar-free

Remove unrar-free configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove unrar-free configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge unrar-free

Dependencies

unrar-free have the following dependencies:

• libc6

References

• unrar-free website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install unrar-free package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.